ambrosian

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From ambrosia + -n.

We wished to go to the Ambrosian Library, and we did that also. — The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain
This Venus brings, in clouds involv’d, and brews Th’ extracted liquor with ambrosian dews, And odorous panacee. — The Aeneid, Virgil
And immediately the vast throng took up the melody and there reverberated throughout the church, escaping through the open doors and windows, across the streets and over the roof-tops, up to the topmost regions of the heavens, to the very gates of heaven itself, the strains of the Ambrosian hymn of thanksgiving and praise which the members of the American Congress sang to the God of Nations and of Battles in the little chapel of St. Mary's on the anniversary day of the signing of the greatest exposition of a freeman's rights ever penned by the hand of man. — The Loyalist: A Story of the American Revolution, James Francis Barrett

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