amatorious
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin amatorius, from amare (“to love”).
Adjective edit
amatorious (comparative more amatorious, superlative most amatorious)
- (obsolete) amatory
- 1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter I, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 12:
- a Prayer ſtol'n word for word from the mouth of a Heathen Woman praying to a Heathen God; and that in no ſerious book, but in the vaine amatorious Poem of Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia,
References edit
- “amatorious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.