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Webster 1913 Edition
Ambrosial
Am-bro′sial
(ăm-brō′zhal or ăm-brō′zh>icr/-al)
, Adj.
[L.
ambrosius
, Gr. ἀμβρόσιος
.] 1.
Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.
“Ambrosial food.” “Ambrosial fragrance.” Milton.
2.
Divinely excellent or beautiful.
“Shakes his ambrosial curls.” Pope.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ambrosial
AMBRO'SIAL
,Adj.
Definition 2024
ambrosial
ambrosial
English
Adjective
ambrosial (comparative more ambrosial, superlative most ambrosial)
- (Greek mythology) Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- And whilst he slept she [Venus] over him would spred / Her mantle, colour'd like the starry skyes, / And her soft arme lay underneath his hed, / And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:
- Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.
- J. S. Byerley, You Taught Me Love
- By your cheek of vermil hue,
By your lip's ambrosial dew,
By your soft and languid eye,
By your swelling bosom's sigh,
You taught me love.
- By your cheek of vermil hue,
- J. S. Byerley, You Taught Me Love
Translations
succulently sweet or fragrant
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