ambrosiac (ambroziak)

[L. ambrosia cus, Shrill strain'd arts-men, whose ambrosiac quills, Whiles they desert's encomions sweet rehearse, The world with wonder and amazement fills. Ford, Fame's Memorial. ambrosia ceo us (am-brō-zi-ā'shius), a. [ Am brosia + -aceous .] In bot., allied to the genus Ambrosia . ambrosial (am-bro'zial), a. [ As the sunset Threw the long shadows of trees o'er the broad ambrosial meadows. Long fellow , Evangeline, i. 4. Sweet after showers, ambrosial air. Tennyson, In Memoriam, lxxxvi. Thou too... mayest become a Political Power: and with the shakings of thy horse-hair wig, shake principalities and dynasties, like a very Jove with his ambrosial Carlyle, French Rev., I. iii. 1. IMG:content-0604.png:[graphic] curls. IMG:content-0605.png:[blocks in formation]