Adjective: dulceous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more dulceous |
| Superlative | most dulceous |
Sample Sentences
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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 sweet tast; as in Hony. [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: […], Chester: […] for the Author, page 387:]
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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:]
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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:]
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Tagore’s voice was deep, resonant, vibrant over a long range, and dulceous like the tingling of silver bells. [1961, Mankind, page 43:]
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drink THAT dulceous devotion / from THE DEVotion incarnate / oozing from the name-form / healing the dullness of tasting love [2015, Ajarn Wu Hsih, Fascinating Panoptic Septon: The September-Born Poem, Partridge Singapore, →ISBN:]
Adjectives inflected like dulceous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From dulce or Latin dulcis + -ous. See: Latin Adjectives '
dulcis'.