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dulceous

dulceous adjective: sweet.

Adjective

dulceous (comparative more dulceous, superlative most dulceous)

  1. (rare) Sweet.
    • 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...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: […]...
    • Fruits are divided, in respect of their taſte, into the acid-dulceous, the aqueo-dulceous, the aſtringent, and the oily.1793, William Rowley, The Rational Practice of Physic, volume IV, London: […] for the Author, page 481

Examples of dulceous in a sentence

  • 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.1800 June 16, Henry James Pye, “Ode for His Majesty’s Birth-Day, June 4, 1800”, in The Weekly Entertainer, volume XXXV, page 478:
  • Tagore’s voice was deep, resonant, vibrant over a long range, and dulceous like the tingling of silver bells.1961, Mankind, page 43:
  • drink THAT dulceous devotion / from THE DEVotion incarnate / oozing from the name-form / healing the dullness of tasting love2015, Ajarn Wu Hsih, Fascinating Panoptic Septon: The September-Born Poem, Partridge Singapore, →ISBN:

Forms of dulceous

comparativemore dulceous
superlativemost dulceous

Origin of dulceous

From dulce or Latin dulcis + -ous.

Questions about dulceous

What does dulceous mean?
Dulceous means sweet.
How do you use dulceous in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is dulceous?
Dulceous is an adjective.

Words near dulceous in the dictionary

  1. dulce de leche
  2. Dulce Nombre de María
  3. dulced
  4. dulcely
  5. dulceness
  6. dulceous
  7. dulces
  8. dulcet
  9. dulcetly
  10. Dulcești
  11. dulcian

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