ambrosiac

[Lat. ambrosiacus.] Am brosial. "Ambrosia cod our for the smell." Ben Jonson: Poetaster, iv. & ăm-bro'-şi-al, a [Derived either from Eng. ambrosia, or from Gr. ἀμβρόσιος (ambrosios) = immortal, divine, and so = divinely beautiful or excellent.] 1. Consisting of, or containing, the fabled ambrosia. "There stopp'd the car, and there the coursers stood, Fed by fair Iris with ambrosial food." Pope : Homer's Iliad , bk. v., 459-60. 2. Having, really or presumably, the taste or fragrance of ambrosia. "And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit." Milton: P. L. , bk. iv. IMG:content-0446.png:[blocks in formation] 181 "Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod." Pope : Homer's Iliad, bk. i., 684. The modern use of the word seems to vary between, and to a certain extent blend, meanings 2 and 3, so that it is difficult always to say which of the two senses predominates. "But the solemn oak-tree sigheth, Thick-leaved, ambrosial " Tennyson: Claribel, i. 7. "The broad ambrosial aisles of lofty lime Made noise with bees and breeze from end to end." Tennyson: Prince . (Prol.) ăm-brō-și-al-ly, adv. [Eng. ambrosial.] After the manner of ambrosia; with a sweet taste or a delicious perfume. "He smiled, and opening out his milk-white palm, Disclosed a fruit of pure Hesperian gold That smelt ambrosially ." Tennyson: Enone. † ăm-brō-şi-an, a [Eng. ambrosia.] The same as AMBROSIAL (Q.V.). "And swim unto Elysium's lily fields; There in ambrosian trees I'll write a theme Of all the woeful sighs my sorrow yields." Song in the Seven Champ . of Christen dom. [Named after Ambrose, Am-brō-și-ạn, a . who was born about A. D. 340, became Bishop of Milan in 374, and died in 397.] Pertaining to Ambrose. Ambrosian Chant: A mode of singing or chanting introduced by Ambrose of Milan. It was more monotonous than the Greg or i an chant. Ambrosian office, rite, or use: A form of worship introduced by Ambrose at Milan, and which was afterwards succe fully maintained against the papal effort to exchange it for another.