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dulcid

dulcid adjective: dulcet, sweet.

Adjective

dulcid (comparative more dulcid, superlative most dulcid)

  1. (obsolete) Dulcet, sweet.
    • 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.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
    • More dulcid milke to gaine; / And nothing brings the babe to rest, / Untill he sleepe upon her brest.1641, Thomas Beedome, Poems, Divine and Humane, […] E.P. for Iohn Sweeting

Forms of dulcid

comparativemore dulcid
superlativemost dulcid

Origin of dulcid

A modification of dulcet, dulced, after words like rapid.

Questions about dulcid

What does dulcid mean?
Dulcid means dulcet, sweet.
What part of speech is dulcid?
Dulcid is an adjective.

Words near dulcid in the dictionary

  1. Dulcești
  2. dulcian
  3. dulciana
  4. dulcianas
  5. dulcians
  6. dulcid
  7. Dulcie
  8. dulciferous
  9. dulcification
  10. dulcifications
  11. dulcified

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