ambrosial

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/amˈbɹəʊzɪəl/(UK)
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/amˈbɹəʊzɪəl/(UK) · /æmˈbɹoʊʒəl/(US)

Definition of ambrosial

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (Greek)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 [...]”
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adj

  1. (Greek)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 [...]”
  2. 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; […]”
    “[T]his young hero, rising from his bed, proceeded to decorate his beautiful person, and shave his ambrosial chin […]”
    “By your cheek of vermil hue, / By your lip’s ambrosial dew, / By your soft and languid eye, / By your swelling bosom’s sigh, / You taught me love.”

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Etymology

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

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