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
   • The only way to use such a sticky varnish was to mulcify it with white of egg.1913, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, page 12

   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
   • Tillage aerates the soil, exposes it to the sweetening influence of the atmosphere, and encourages root growth; surface tillage mulcifies the soil and prevents undue evaporation of moisture.1902, Natal Agriculture Journal - Volume 5, page 646
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
   • At length the soothing speeches of the astounded courtiers mulcified the illustrious personages wrath ; he resumed his seat on the conviction that no insult had been intended.1835 July 25, “Interpreter”, in Figaro in London, volume 4, number 190, page 124