ambrosial
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
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.
- 1607, [Barnabe Barnes], The Divils Charter: A Tragædie Conteining the Life and Death of Pope Alexander the Sixt. […], London: Printed by G[eorge] E[ld] for Iohn Wright, […], OCLC 1043018437 ↗, Act III, scene ii ↗:
- Thy Chamber with Ambroſiall odors breatheth, / New loues and true loues vnto them that entreateth, / And furious Mars made milde his falchion#English|Faulcheon ſheatheth / At thy delicious aſpect: [...]
- 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,
- Portuguese: ambrosíaco
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