Word of the Day: MULCIBLE

ETYMOLOGY
from Latin mulcibilis, from mulcere (to soothe) + -ibilis (-ible)

EXAMPLE
“… But now, partly through the ineffable quality of rich comedy, which was so much the constitution of Elliston, and partly from Miss Warren’s mulcible nature, which, to do her justice, was unrivalled, and all this aided by the pacific disposition of the clerk of the “long-room,” peace was tolerably restored. …”

From: Memoirs of Robert William Elliston, 
Comedian, 1774-1810
By George Raymond, 1844

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