ambrosiac
English edit
Etymology edit
Either from ambrosia + -ac or Latin ambrosiacus;[1] compare French ambrosiaque.
Adjective edit
ambrosiac (comparative more ambrosiac, superlative most ambrosiac)
- Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
- 1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The New Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, signature E3, verso:
- I reliſh not theſe philoſophicall feaſts; / Giue me a banquet o’ ſenſe, like that of Ovid: / A forme, to take the eye; a voyce, mine eare; / Pure aromatiques, to my ſent; a ſoft, / Smooth, deinty hand, to touch; and, for my taſte, / Ambroſiack kiſſes, to melt downe the palat.
References edit
- ^ “ambrosiac, adj.”, in OED Online
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ambrosiac”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)