ambrosian, a.1
(æmˈbrəʊzɪən, -ʒɪən)
[f. L. ambrosi-us (see prec.) + -an.]
= ambrosial.
1. Of or pertaining to the immortal gods; divine.
| a 1637 B. Jonson Masques (T.) Ambrosian hands and silver feet. 1676 Hobbes Homer 372 Ambrosian shoes, that over sea and land Bear him as swift and lightly as the winds. 1850 Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) IV. xxxviii. 324 Unworthy..of the ambrosian blood of their parent Venus. |
2. Of or like ambrosia; divinely fragrant or delicious.
| 1632 in Shaks. Cent. Praise 192 Fed with Ambrosian meate. 1647 H. More Oracle 60 Ambrosian streams sprung from the Deitie. 1661 Hickeringill Jamaica 32 A most ambrosian Dainty. 1697 Dryden Virg. xii. (R.) Venus..brews Th' extracted liquor with ambrosian dews. 1823 Lamb Elia Ser i. xxiv. (1865) 193 One ambrosian result. |