demulce

From Latin demulceo (“I soothe”); de + mulceo (“I stroke”).

demulce (third-person singular simple present demulces, present participle demulcing, simple past and past participle demulced)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To soothe, assuage, pacify or soften.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:

     Saturne was eftsones demulced

• “demulce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

dēmulcē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dēmulceō