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demulce (third-person singular simple present demulces, present participle demulcing, simple past and past participle demulced)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To soothe, assuage, pacify or soften.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:

     Saturne was eftsones demulced

派生語

参照

• “demulce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.