different between ambrosial vs ambrosiac

English

Etymology

From ambrosia +? -al.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /am?b???z??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /æm?b?o???l/

Adjective

ambrosial (comparative more ambrosial, superlative most ambrosial)

1. (Greek mythology) Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.1:

     And whilst he slept she [Venus] over him would spred / Her mantle, colour’d like the starry skyes, / And her soft arme lay underneath his hed, / And with ambrosiall kisses bathe his eyes [...]

2. Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.
   • J. S. Byerley, You Taught Me Love

     By your cheek of vermil hue,
     By your lip’s ambrosial dew,
     By your soft and languid eye,
     By your swelling bosom’s sigh,
     You taught me love.

Synonyms

• ambrosian

Derived terms

• ambrosially

Translations

English

Etymology

Latin ambrosiacus: compare French ambrosiaque.

Adjective

ambrosiac (comparative more ambrosiac, superlative most ambrosiac)

1. Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
   • 1629, Ben Jonson, The New Inn

     Ambrosiac kisses