amoroso

[Ital.] A man enamoured. ăm'-or-ous, *ăm-er-ous, a. [Lat. am or, and Eng. suff. -ous full of. In Fr. amoureux; Sp., Port., & Ital. amorosa. From Lat. am or = love.] † 1. In love with, entertaining love for; desirous of obtaining. This love or desire may be attributed to a person or other being, or to a thing personified; and it may go out towards a person or thing. (Formerly followed by on , now by q .) IMG:content-0470.png:[blocks in formation] Crabb says that amorous , loving , and fond "are all used to mark the exce or distortion of a tender sentiment. Amorous is taken in a criminal sense, loving and fond in a contemptuous sense an indiscriminate and dishonourable attachment to the fair sex characterises the amorous man; an overweening and childish attachment to any object marks the loving and fond person. An amorous temper should be suppre ed, a loving temper should be regulated; a fond temper should be checked." ( Crabb : Eng . Synonymes.) where I was taught Of your chaste daughter the wide difference ' Twixt amorous and villainous, Shakesp.: Cymbeline , v. 5. (b) Fig . Of things personified: "Nor Chloris, with whom amorous zephyrs play." Cowper: Milton's Latin Poems , Elegy iii. "While the amorous , odorous wind Breathes low between the sunset and the moon." Tennyson: Eleanore, 8. Pope : Homer's Ody ey, bk. xxiii., 361-2. to the harp they sung Soft amorous ditties, and in dance came on. Milton: P. L. , bk. xi. [Gr. ἀμορφία (a morphia).] Shapele ne , irregularity of form. "As mankind is now disposed, he receives much greater advantage by being diverted than instructed; his epidemical diseases being fastidiosity, amorphy, and oscitation."- Tale of a Tub.