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third-person singular simple present demulces, present participle demulcing, simple past and past participle demulced
(transitive) To soothe; to mollify; to pacify; to soften. quotations examples
Saturne was eftsones demulced
1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published