mellificare

mellificare [CL] 1 to make honey; b (fig.); c (w. internal acc.). sic apes a malo sapore gratius ~ant Gosc. Lib. Confort. 28; apiarium, locus ubi apes ~ant Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 52; invenit ibidem apum examen tanquam in alveario ~asse Gir. GE I 11 p. 42; more ‥ apum melificantium nullo ocio stertebant, sed omnes laborando operi insudabant J. Furness Kentig. 24 p. 203; fac ut apes tibi mellificent, sed gratia detur D. Bec. 2188; apes enim ubertim michi ~ant J. Godard Ep. 233. b in quibus omnibus quasi in hortis aromatum flores decerpere, et urbana suavitate loquendi ~are sibi potest diligentia modernorum P. Blois Ep. 101. 314B; o mellificans fons Edmund BVM 2. 30. c nil valet in stomacho mel mellificare canino D. Bec. 2341. 2 to make as sweet or as pleasant as honey (usu fig.). b (w. ref. to style) to refine, embellish (perh. w. play on melos, to make melodious). Augustinum appetebant undique coelestia ~antem Gosc. Aug. Maj. 88D; tam patris imperatoria pietas quam sua servitoria benignitas omnibus eam ~averat Id. Edith 62; tunc demum diu celatum virus ~ans Id. Lib. Mild. 12 p. 80; ~ante Domino orbem terre J. Lond. Commend. Ed. I 8. b c1184 prefatam sane prosam ‥ si vobis placeret, placeret et michi ut melificetis J. Exon. Ep. 3. 79. 3 (in list of words). magnifico, ~o, mirifico Aldh. PR 133 p. 185.

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