nectared
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nectared (comparative more nectared, superlative most nectared)
- Imbued or abounding with nectar.
- 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Caſtle, 1634.”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, page 96:
- How charming is divine Philoſophy! / Not harſh, and crabbed as dull fools ſuppoſe, / But muſical as is Apollo's lute, / And a perpetual feaſt of nectar'd ſweets, / Where no crude ſurfet raigns.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “nectared”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)