edulcorate
English
Verb
edulcorate (third-person singular simple present edulcorates, present participle edulcorating, simple past and past participle edulcorated)
- (rare) To sweeten.
- (rare) To make more acceptable or palatable.
- 2019, Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive, Alfred A. Knopf, page 129:
- I guess I am simply accustomed to dealing with more edulcorated versions of xenophobia.
- 2019, Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive, Alfred A. Knopf, page 129:
- (rare) To free from acidity.
- 1663, Robert Boyle, “Essay V. Proposing Some Particulars wherein Natural Philosophy may be Useful to the Therapeutical Part of Physick.”, in Some Considerations Touching the Vsefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, OCLC 926120571, part II, section I (Of It’s Usefulness to Physick), chapter VI, pages 159–160:
- The more Judicious of the Chymiſts themſelves do ſeveral of them novv acknovvledge, that the bare reducing of Pearls to fine Povvder, affords a Medicine much richer in the Vertues of the Pearls, then the Magiſtery, prepar'd by diſſolving them in acid Spirits, and precipitating them vvith Oyl of Tartar, and aftervvards ſcrupulously edulcorating them.
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Derived terms
- edulcoration
Translations
to sweeten
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to free from acidity
Anagrams
- cleared out
Italian
Verb
edulcorate
- inflection of edulcorare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Participle
edulcorate f pl
- feminine plural of edulcorato