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Definition of Ambrosially
1. adv. After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully.
Definition of Ambrosially
1. Adverb. In an ambrosial manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ambrosially
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambrosially
Literary usage of Ambrosially
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1922)
"... A fruit of pure Hesperian gold i That smelled ambrosially (see OD s. ambrosial).
Also ambrosial sleep means balmy sleep, ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... and macassar, and the dence-knows-what to your whiskers; they curl ambrosially,
and you are very grand and genteel, and so forth ; but, ah ! ..."
3. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... Disclosed a fruit of pure Hesperian gold, That smelt ambrosially, and while
I look'd And listen'd, the full-flowing river of " О mother Ida, ..."
4. The Formation of Tennyson's Style: A Study, Primarily of the Versification by James Francis Augustin Pyre (1921)
"... in the later version, to the hair of Aphrodite, where it is reminiscent of a
passage in Virgil. In Œnone, also, the apples "smelt ambrosially" ..."
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