dulceous

English

Etymology

From dulce or Latin dulcis +‎ -ous.^[1]

Adjective

dulceous (comparative more dulceous, superlative most dulceous)

(rare) Sweet.
- 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:
  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.
- 1793, William Rowley, The Rational Practice of Physic, volume IV, London: […] for the Author, page 481:
  Fruits are divided, in respect of their taſte, into the acid-dulceous, the aqueo-dulceous, the aſtringent, and the oily.
- 1800 June 16, Henry James Pye, “Ode for His Majesty’s Birth-Day, June 4, 1800”, in The Weekly Entertainer, volume XXXV, page 478:
  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.
- 1961, Mankind, page 43:
  Tagore’s voice was deep, resonant, vibrant over a long range, and dulceous like the tingling of silver bells.
- 2015, Ajarn Wu Hsih, Fascinating Panoptic Septon: The September-Born Poem, Partridge Singapore, →ISBN:
  drink THAT dulceous devotion / from THE DEVotion incarnate / oozing from the name-form / healing the dullness of tasting love

References

^ John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “†ˈdulceous, a.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

[1] John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “†ˈdulceous, a.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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