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mulcified

mulcified is the simple past and past participle of mulcify.

Meaning of mulcify

Verb

mulcify (third-person singular simple present mulcifies, present participle mulcifying, simple past and past participle mulcified)

  1. Synonym of emulsify.
    • 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 ).1906, Armand Gautier, Diet and dietetics, page 443
    Synonyms:
    emulsify
  2. (obsolete) To soften.
    • 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...August 31, 1867, “The 'Forty Ounces of Solids' Theory and the Pancreatic Emulsion”, in The Medical Times and Gazette, page 239
  3. (obsolete) To soothe or mitigate.
    • 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...1671, Richard Saunders, Saunders Physiognomie, and Chiromancie, Metoposcopie, page 321

Questions about mulcified

What is mulcified the simple past and past participle of?
Mulcified is the simple past and past participle of mulcify.

Words near mulcified in the dictionary

  1. mulchings
  2. mulchy
  3. Mulchén
  4. Mulciberian
  5. mulcible
  6. mulcified
  7. mulcifies
  8. mulcify
  9. mulcifying
  10. mulct
  11. mulctable

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