ambrosiac

English

Etymology

Latin ambrosiacus: compare French ambrosiaque.

Adjective

ambrosiac (comparative more ambrosiac, superlative most ambrosiac)

  1. Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
    • 1629 (first performance), B[en] Jonson, The Nevv Inne. Or, The Light Heart. […], London: […] Thomas Harper, for Thomas Alchorne, […], published 1631, →OCLC, (please specify the page, or act number in uppercase Roman numerals), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
      Ambrosiac kisses

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ambrosiac”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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