dulcify
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And there was, to dulcify for her the bath of this evening, the yet sharper contrast with the plight she had just come home in, sopped, shivering, clung to by her clothes.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
Your lato, azoch, zernich, chibrit, heautarit," and another asks:— "Can you sublime and dulcify? calcine?
From Halleck's New English Literature by Reuben Post Halleck
Come, let us begin the cure; and, through the exhilarating sweetness of harmony, let us dulcify, lenify, and pacify the acrimony of his spirits, which, I see, are ready to be inflamed.
From Monsieur De Pourceaugnac by Charles Heron Wall
The savage of America, like the savage of the South Sea islands, has learned to dulcify the fecula, by pressing and separating it from its juice.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
They are dawdling and dulcified to a deplorable degree.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various
All the harshness of life will be dulcified; we shall lie dreaming on golden sands, dipping full goblets out of a sea that has been transmuted into lemonade.
From The Open Secret of Ireland by T. M. (Thomas Michael) Kettle
His harshest tones in this part came steeped and dulcified in good humour.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
But on this occasion, as she had awakened in an uncommonly pleasant humor, and was further dulcified by her pipe tobacco, she resolved to produce something fine, beautiful, and splendid, rather than hideous and horrible.
From Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nought but sublimate and crude mercury, sir, well prepared and dulcified, with the jaw-bones of a sow, burnt, beaten, and searced.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson