ambrosial

American  

[am-broh-zhuhl] / æmˈbroʊ ʒəl /

Also ambrosian

adjective

1. exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.

2. worthy of the gods; divine.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• ambrosially
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of ambrosial

First recorded in 1590–1600; ambrosi(a) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

When thus her shapely form Had been anointed, and her hands had combed Her tresses, she arranged the lustrous curls, Ambrosial, beautiful, that clustering hung Round her immortal brow.

From Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

For them, at bidding of the river-God, Ambrosial forage grew: the Goddesses, Swift as the wild wood-pigeon's rapid flight, Sped to the battle-field to aid the Greeks.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of

These are the "Ambrosial curls Upon the Sovereign One's immortal head," of which Homer writes in the Iliad.

From Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

But fountain and roses and glittering spray, Ambrosial converse and redolent lay Saddened and dimmed in the radiant day, Unbroken the yellow sunbeams streamed, As ever the flashing jewels gleamed.

From Atmâ A Romance by Frazer, Caroline Augusta

Rising from my kind bed of thick-strewn leaves, A fragrance the astonished sense receives, Ambrosial, searching, yet retiring, mild: Of that soft scene the soul was it? or child?

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret