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Definition of Ambrosian
1. Adjective. Of or by or relating to Saint Ambrose. "Ambrosian chants"
2. Adjective. Extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant. "Ambrosial food"
3. Adjective. Worthy of the gods.
Definition of Ambrosian
1. a. Ambrosial.
2. a. Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose.
Definition of Ambrosian
1. Adjective. Of or relating to (w St Ambrose). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ambrosian
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambrosian
Literary usage of Ambrosian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"But canon 23 of the Council of Tours (767) allowed the use of the Ambrosian hymns.
Though the Psalter of the second recension of St. Jerome, now used in all ..."
2. The American Bibliopolist (1870)
"The literary wealth of the famous monastery of Bobbio was divided between the
Vatican and Ambrosian libraries. Car- • dinal Federigo Borromeo founded the ..."
3. Memoirs of Libraries: Including a Handbook of Library Economy by Edward Edwards (1859)
"Ambrosian Li- The Ambrosian Library at Milan owes its existence to the munificence
of Cardinal Frederick Borromeo, nephew of Charles Borromeo, ..."
4. Christian Worship: Its Origin and Evolution. A Study of the Latin Liturgy Up by Louis Duchesne (1904)
"Ambrosian Books. We find a considerable number of liturgical manuscripts, compiled
for Churches using the Ambrosian rite, preserved in the collections of ..."
5. The Ancient Editions of Plautus by Wallace Martin Lindsay (1904)
"For example, in the first Canticum of the Amphitruo, where (owing to the want of
the Ambrosian Palimpsest) we are quite at fault about the disposition of vv ..."
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