edulcorateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

edulcorate (三人称単数 現在形 edulcorates, 現在分詞 edulcorating, 過去形および過去分詞形 edulcorated)

1. (rare) To sweeten.
2. (rare) To make more acceptable or palatable.
   • 2019, Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive, Alfred A. Knopf, page 129:

     I guess I am simply accustomed to dealing with more edulcorated versions of xenophobia.

3. (rare) To free from acidity.
   • 1663, Robert Boyle, “Essay V. Proposing Some Particulars wherein Natural Philosophy may be Useful to the Therapeutical Part of Physick.”, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, OCLC 926120571, part II, section I (Of It’s Usefulness to Physick), chapter VI, pages 159–160:

     The more Judicious of the Chymiſts themſelves do ſeveral of them novv acknovvledge, that the bare reducing of Pearls to fine Povvder, affords a Medicine much richer in the Vertues of the Pearls, then the Magiſtery, prepar'd by diſſolving them in acid Spirits, and precipitating them vvith Oyl of Tartar, and aftervvards ſcrupulously edulcorating them.