Dictionary

edulcorate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /əˈdʌlkəɹeɪt/

Etymology

From Medieval Latin ēdulcōrō. Compare French édulcorer.

Meanings

1. (rare) To sweeten.
2. (rare) To make more acceptable or palatable.
   • 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:
3. (rare) To free from acidity.
   • 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. 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, part II, section I (Of It’s Usefulness to Physick), chapter VI, pages 159–160:

Forms

Deriveds

edulcorator · edulcoration

Translations (2)

it edulcorare (to sweeten) · fr édulcorer (to sweeten)