[f. L. ambrosi-us (see prec.) + -AN.] = AMBROSIAL.

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  1.  Of or pertaining to the immortal gods; divine.

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1624.  B. Jonson, Fortunate Isles, D (T.).

        Your lookes, your smiles, and thoughts that meete,
Ambrosian hands, and siluer feete,
            Do promise you will do’t.

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1676.  Hobbes, Homer, 372. Ambrosian shoes, that over sea and land Bear him as swift and lightly as the winds.

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1850.  Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), IV. xxxviii. 324. Unworthy of the ambrosian blood of their parent Venus.

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  2.  Of or like ambrosia; divinely fragrant or delicious.

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1632.  in Shaks. Cent. Praise, 192. Fed with Ambrosian meate.

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1647.  H. More, Oracle, 60. Ambrosian streams sprung from the Deitie.

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1661.  Hickeringill, Jamaica, 32. A most ambrosian Dainty.

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1697.  Dryden, Æneid, XII. 615 (R.).

        This Venus brings, in Clouds involv’d; and brews
Th’ extracted Liquor with Ambrosian Dews.

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1823.  Lamb, Elia, Ser I. xxiv. (1865), 193. One ambrosian result.

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