dulcorate

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English

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Etymology

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Latin dulcoratus, past participle of dulcorare.

Pronunciation

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dulcorate (third-person singular simple present dulcorates, present participle dulcorating, simple past and past participle dulcorated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To sweeten; to make less acrimonious.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], London: [] William Rawley []; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      The ancients for the dulcorating of fruit, do commend swines dung above all other dung

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dulcorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

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Verb

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dulcōrāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of dulcōrō