emolliate

English

Etymology

See emollient.

Verb

emolliate (third-person singular simple present emolliates, present participle emolliating, simple past and past participle emolliated)

1. (transitive) To soften; to render effeminate.
   • 1806, John Pinkerton, Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Colonies, […] :

     Emolliated by four centuries of Roman domination, the Belgic colonies had forgotten their pristine valour.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “emolliate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)