ambrosial

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ambrosial

  • /amˈbɹəʊzɪəl/ UK
  • /æmˈbɹoʊʒəl/ US

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Partly from ambrosia and partly from Latin ambrosius, + -al.

adjective more ambrosial · most ambrosial

  1. Greek Pertaining to or worthy of the gods. 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 [...]
  2. Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine. Thy Chamber vvith Ambroſiall odors breatheth, / Nevv loues and true loues vnto them that entreateth, / And furious Mars made milde his Faulcheon ſheatheth / At thy delicious aſpect: […]

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