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Definition of Ambrosial
1. Adjective. Extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant. "Ambrosial food"
2. Adjective. Worthy of the gods.
Definition of Ambrosial
1. a. Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.
Definition of Ambrosial
1. Adjective. (context: Greek mythology) Pertaining to or worthy of the gods. ¹
2. Adjective. Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ambrosial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambrosial
Literary usage of Ambrosial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Formation of Tennyson's Style: A Study, Primarily of the Versification by James Francis Augustin Pyre (1921)
"Of similar extraction is the Homeric epithet, "ambrosial," much used by Milton
... One of Tennyson's earliest fragments introduces us to "ambrosial glooms". ..."
2. Old Virginia and Her Neighbours by John Fiske (1900)
"About this time, or soon • after, began those ambrosial nights, those feasts of
Mermaid the gods, at the Mermaid Tavern, where Selden and Camden, ..."
3. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... dark eyes, ambrosial breath—My first horseback ride— Herman Melville's
stories—Another kind of James— The thunder-storm—Yearning ladies and melancholy ..."
4. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"Hera she ceas'd, And Paris ponder'd, and I cried, ' О From her warm brows and
bosom her ambrosial, golden round her lucid throat And shoulder ; from the ..."
5. The Historical Writings of John Fiske by John Fiske (1902)
"About this time, or soon after, began those ambrosial nights, Mermaid those feasts
of the gods, at the Tavern Mermaid Tavern, where Selden and Camden, ..."
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