dulcify
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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
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
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
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
His harshest tones in this part came steeped and dulcified in good-humour.
From English literary criticism by Various
Half a Drachm of the dulcified Spirit of Nitre, and five Drops of the tinctura thebaica, were added to each of his Draughts, as the Pain and Difficulty of making Water had increased.
From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro
He took chrystals of tartar, seneka, gum ammoniac, saline draughts, emetics, tinct. of cantharides, spirits of nitre dulcified, squills in all forms, volatile alkaly, calomel, Dover's powder, &c.
From An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases by William Withering
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
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
