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单词 dulcid
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dulcid

English

Etymology

A modification of dulcet, dulced, after words like rapid.[1]

Adjective

dulcid (comparative more dulcid, superlative most dulcid)

  1. (obsolete) Dulcet, sweet.
    • 1633, The Nightingale Whose Curious Notes Are Here Explain’d, in a Dainty Ditty Sweetly Fain’d. To a New and Much Affected Court Tune., London: [] E. Coules:
      Tis Musicke rare / To heare this little, pretty, dulcid, dainty Philomel / how she makes the Woods for to ring, / Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet, / Iug, jug, jug, jug, sweet, jug, jug, jug, jug, / the Nightingale doth sing.
    • 1641, Thomas Beedome, Poems, Divine and Humane, [] E.P. for Iohn Sweeting:
      More dulcid milke to gaine; / And nothing brings the babe to rest, / Untill he sleepe upon her brest.
    • 1657, Joannes Renodæus [i.e., Jean de Renou], “Of Simple Medicaments, Which by a Specificall Property Have Respect to Certain Peculiar Parts”, in Richard Tomlinson, transl., A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing the Whole Body of Physick: Discovering the Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals: The Manner of Compounding Medicaments, and the Way to Administer Them. [], London: [] Jo[hn] Streater and Ja[mes] Cottrel, section “Jo. Renodæus, Medick, His Five Books of Physical Institutions”, “Of Election of Medicaments. His First Book.”, page 19:
      All dulcid things are agreeable and pleaſant to the Lungs;
    • 1698, John Fryer, “Shews the Pleasure and the Product of the Woods: The People Bewitched to Idolatry; the Sottishness of the Atheist. I am Sent for to Bombaim; after Some Endeavours to Go Thither, and Some Time Spent at Goa, Am Forced to Winter at Carwar, and then I return to Surat.”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. [], London: [] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter IV (A Relation of the Canatick-Country), page 182:
      The Fruit the Engliſh call a Pine-Apple (the Moors, Ananas) becauſe the reſemblance, cuts within as firm as a Pippin; Seedy, if not fully ripe; the Taſte inclinable to Tartneſs, though moſt excellently qualified by a dulcid Sapor that impoſes upon the Imagination and Guſtative Faculty a Fancy that it reliſhes of any Fruit a Man likes, and ſome will ſwear it: []

References

  1. John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), †dulcid, a. and n.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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