"mulcify" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: mulcifies [present, singular, third-person], mulcifying [participle, present], mulcified [participle, past], mulcified [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} mulcify (third-person singular simple present mulcifies, present participle mulcifying, simple past and past participle mulcified)
  1. Synonym of emulsify Synonyms: emulsify [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-mulcify-en-verb-jzDKPElH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 89 6 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 84 9 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 89 5 5
  2. (obsolete) To soften. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-mulcify-en-verb-SEQL1cjq
  3. (obsolete) To soothe or mitigate. Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-mulcify-en-verb-CBSVInot

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1906, Armand Gautier, Diet and dietetics, page 443:",
          "text": "The powder in water mulcifies with a little yolk of egg with the addition finally of a little dextrin ( 20 grms. per litre ), salt ( about 7 grms. per litre ), and a little strong wine ( Malaga, Roussillon, etc., 3 tablespoonfuls ).",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1913, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, page 12:",
          "text": "The only way to use such a sticky varnish was to mulcify it with white of egg.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1934, Helen Gertrude Randle, The Proper Diet for Every Case of Impaired Health, page 210:",
          "text": "Scrub the skin briskly with Helen Randle health soap, dry with a turkish towel, massage the skin with mulcified peanut oil.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "August 31, 1867, “The 'Forty Ounces of Solids' Theory and the Pancreatic Emulsion”, in The Medical Times and Gazette, page 239:",
          "text": "I should be quite prepared to see it crowded with the portly forms of a number of London draymen, porters, footmen, etc., with a proportional number of cooks, kitchenmaids, and other specimens of the \"area belle\", all as plump, blooming, and buxom as \"forty ounces of solids,” mulcified with twenty ounces of milk, and the whole washed down with “either half a pint of port, sherry, or Marsala; or one pint of Burgundy, claret, or other similar wine;",
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        {
          "ref": "1902, Natal Agriculture Journal - Volume 5, page 646:",
          "text": "Tillage aerates the soil, exposes it to the sweetening influence of the atmosphere, and encourages root growth; surface tillage mulcifies the soil and prevents undue evaporation of moisture.",
          "type": "quote"
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        {
          "ref": "1926, The Commonweal - Volume 4, page 139:",
          "text": "[…] those old stories of defeated emperors and disgruntled philosophers retiring for a comfortable suicide to their warm bathrooms, are as frequent as those of tough old gentlemen and warriors, as well as the Lesbias and Lydias of the poets, resorting to the mulcifying solutions of their epidermis in asses' milk.",
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        "(obsolete) To soften."
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          "ref": "1671, Richard Saunders, Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, page 321:",
          "text": "A man or woman having a Mole on the left side toward the upper part of the corner of the Eye, as in the first figure and number (41) they have another the left Loin or Thigh; this signified a great and perillous sicknesses to a man; if it be honey colour or red, these sorrows are somewhat mulcified, but if black, a short life through a gievous Fall or choaking in the Waters: but if as a Lentil or wart, if promiseth a good end.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1835 July 25, “Interpreter”, in Figaro in London, volume 4, number 190, page 124:",
          "text": "At length the soothing speeches of the astounded courtiers mulcified the illustrious personages wrath ; he resumed his seat on the conviction that no insult had been intended.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1878, ULULA: THE MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZINE:",
          "text": "'Tis yours to mulcify the dolorific heart,",
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          "text": "The powder in water mulcifies with a little yolk of egg with the addition finally of a little dextrin ( 20 grms. per litre ), salt ( about 7 grms. per litre ), and a little strong wine ( Malaga, Roussillon, etc., 3 tablespoonfuls ).",
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          "ref": "1934, Helen Gertrude Randle, The Proper Diet for Every Case of Impaired Health, page 210:",
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          "text": "Tillage aerates the soil, exposes it to the sweetening influence of the atmosphere, and encourages root growth; surface tillage mulcifies the soil and prevents undue evaporation of moisture.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "text": "[…] those old stories of defeated emperors and disgruntled philosophers retiring for a comfortable suicide to their warm bathrooms, are as frequent as those of tough old gentlemen and warriors, as well as the Lesbias and Lydias of the poets, resorting to the mulcifying solutions of their epidermis in asses' milk.",
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          "ref": "1835 July 25, “Interpreter”, in Figaro in London, volume 4, number 190, page 124:",
          "text": "At length the soothing speeches of the astounded courtiers mulcified the illustrious personages wrath ; he resumed his seat on the conviction that no insult had been intended.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1878, ULULA: THE MANCHESTER GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZINE:",
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        }
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