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ambrosian, a.1|æmˈbrəʊzɪən, -ʒɪən|
[f. L. ambrosi-us (see prec.) + -an.]
= ambrosial.
1. Of or pertaining to the immortal gods; divine.
a1637B. Jonson Masques (T.) Ambrosian hands and silver feet. 1676Hobbes Homer 372 Ambrosian shoes, that over sea and land Bear him as swift and lightly as the winds. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) IV. xxxviii. 324 Unworthy..of the ambrosian blood of their parent Venus.
2. Of or like ambrosia; divinely fragrant or delicious.
1632in Shaks. Cent. Praise 192 Fed with Ambrosian meate. 1647H. More Oracle 60 Ambrosian streams sprung from the Deitie. 1661Hickeringill Jamaica 32 A most ambrosian Dainty. 1697Dryden Virg. xii. (R.) Venus..brews Th' extracted liquor with ambrosian dews. 1823Lamb Elia Ser i. xxiv. (1865) 193 One ambrosian result. |