ambrosial

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

Pronunciation: /amˈbɹəʊzɪəl/ / /æmˈbɹoʊʒəl/

Etymology: Partly from ambrosia and partly from Latin ambrosius, + -al.

Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
“And whilst he slept she [Venus] over him would spred / Her mantle, colour’d like the starry skyes, / And her soft arme lay underneath his hed, / And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes [...]”
Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.
“Thy Chamber vvith Ambroſiall odors breatheth, / Nevv loues and true loues vnto them that entreateth, / And furious Mars made milde his Faulcheon ſheatheth / At thy delicious aſpect: […]”
“VVhile thus she spake, / She touched his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]”