ambrosial

UK /amˈbɹəʊzɪəl/ US /æmˈbɹoʊʒəl/
adj 2

Definitions

adj

1

Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.

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.

Thy Chamber vvith Ambroſiall odors breatheth, / Nevv loues and true loues vnto them that entreateth, / And furious Mars made milde his Faulcheon ſheatheth / At thy delicious aſpect: […]

VVhile thus she spake, / She touched his eye-lashes with libant lip / And breath'd ambrosial odours; […]

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