"dulceous" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dulce or Latin dulcis + -ous.",
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          "ref": "1688, Randle Holme, The Academy of Armory, or, a Storehouse of Armory and Blazon Containing the Several Variety of Created Beings, and How Born in Coats of Arms, Both Foreign and Domestick: […], Chester: […] for the Author, page 387",
          "text": "A Gustation is the Sence of tasting, which proceeds from the Instrument of the Tongue, and Pallate; now there are several sorts of tasts: as, / The Sapious, or Sapitious, or Savoury taste; is when the Sense is pleased and delighted therewith: as in eating ripe fruit. / The Dulceous, Luscious, or sweet tast; as in Hony.",
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          "text": "Fruits are divided, in respect of their taſte, into the acid-dulceous, the aqueo-dulceous, the aſtringent, and the oily.",
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          "ref": "1800 June 16, Henry James Pye, “Ode for His Majesty’s Birth-Day, June 4, 1800”, in The Weekly Entertainer, volume XXXV, page 478",
          "text": "Fenc’d by her naval hoſts, that ride / Triumphant o’er the circling tide, / Britannia jocund pours the feſtive lay, / And hails with dulceous voice her George’s natal day.",
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          "ref": "1961, Mankind, page 43",
          "text": "Tagore’s voice was deep, resonant, vibrant over a long range, and dulceous like the tingling of silver bells.",
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          "ref": "2015, Ajarn Wu Hsih, Fascinating Panoptic Septon: The September-Born Poem, Partridge Singapore",
          "text": "drink THAT dulceous devotion / from THE DEVotion incarnate / oozing from the name-form / healing the dullness of tasting love",
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        "(rare) Sweet."
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