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ambrosial

[am-broh-zhuhl]

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adjective

exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.

worthy of the gods; divine.

Also, ambrosian.

Origin:
1590–1600; ambrosi(a) + -al¹

Related forms

am·bro·sial·ly, adverb

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ambrosia (æmˈbrəʊzɪə)

—n
1.	classical myth Compare nectar the food of the gods, said to bestow immortality
2.	anything particularly delightful to taste or smell
3.	another name for beebread
4.	any of various herbaceous plants constituting the genus Ambrosia, mostly native to America but widely naturalized: family Asteraceae (composites). The genus includes the ragweeds

[C16: via Latin from Greek: immortality, from ambrotos, from a-¹ + brotos mortal]

am'brosial

—*adj*

am'brosian

—*adj*

am'brosially

—*adv*

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ambrosial

1590s, "immortal, divine," from L. ambrosius, from Gk. ambrosios (see ambrosia).

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"Sometimes, having had a surfeit of human society and gossip, and worn out all my village friends, I rambled still farther westward than I habitually dwell, into yet more unfrequented parts of the town, "to fresh woods and pastures new," or, while the sun was setting, made my supper of huckleberries and blueberries on Fair Haven Hill, and laid up a store for several days. The fruits do not yield their true flavor to the purchaser of them, nor to him who raises them for the market. There is but one way to obtain it, yet few take that way.... It is a vulgar error to suppose that you have tasted huckleberries who never plucked them. A huckleberry never reaches Boston; they have not been known there since they grew on her three hills. The ambrosial and essential part of the fruit is lost with the bloom which is rubbed off in the market cart, and they become mere provender. As long as Eternal Justice reigns, not one innocent huckleberry can be transported thither from the country's hills."

-Henry David Thoreau

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