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Ambrosian

adjective

Of or by or relating to Saint Ambrose.

Extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant. Synonyms: ambrosial, nectarous. "Ambrosial food"

Worthy of the gods. Synonym: ambrosial.

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"Ambrosian" Quotes from Famous Books

... book-lovers will have to content themselves with the facsimile published in London, 1891, price two guineas. A unique copy of a Spanish reprint in small quarto, made in 1493, is preserved in the Ambrosian library at Milan. In 1889 Messrs. Ellis & Elvey, of London, published a facsimile alleged to have been made from an edition of about the same date as the Ambrosian quarto; but there are good reasons for believing that these highly respectable publishers have been imposed upon. It is a time just ...

— The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) - with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest • John Fiske

... of the omission of this and the other additions from the original Syriac (e.g. Westcott, quoting Polychronius, Smith's D.B., ed. 2. 7136, Bissell, 448), but they are contained in the Syriac text of Origen's Hexapla, in the MS. in the Ambrosian Library at Milan (Kautzsch, I. 172), published in facsimile by Ceriani. Bugati in his edition of Daniel gives this Syriac and the LXX text in parallel columns. In Jephet Ibn All's (the Karaite's) Arabic commentary on Daniel, translated by D.S. Margoliouth (Oxf. 1889), ...

— The Three Additions to Daniel, A Study • William Heaford Daubney

... have been to the Ambrosian library—it is a fine collection—full of MSS. edited and unedited. I enclose you a list of the former recently published: these are matters for your literati. For me, in my simple way, I have been most delighted with a correspondence of letters, all original ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

Words linked to "Ambrosian" : ambrosial, Ambrose, heavenly, tasty, nectarous