Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Making or producing honey; honey-making.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing honey.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Producing
honey .
Etymologies
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Latin mel, mellis, honey + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.
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Examples
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"In very sooth, most fair, most mellific damsel, your unworthy servitor was erring enchanted in the paradise of your divine idea when that the horrific alarum did wend its fear-begetting course through the labyrinthine corridors of his auricular sensories."
The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897
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It was impossible, and yet this following her with his eyes, and the mellific manner which he adopted when speaking to her, insisted on its possibility.
The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895
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