adorable (adorabl)

[ The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary adorable manding adoration; worthy of being adored; worthy of divine honors. There are those who have treated the history of Abraham as an astronomical record, and have spoken of our adorable Saviour as the sun in Aries. J. H. Newman , Gram. of A ent, p. 364. 2. Worthy of the utmost love or admiration: as, she is an adorable creature; an adorable statue. When he [the pope] touched, as he did briefly, on the misfortunes of the church, an adorable fire came into his T. B. Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 114. eyes.