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ambrosiate

ambrosiate adjective: ambrosial.

Adjective

ambrosiate (comparative more ambrosiate, superlative most ambrosiate)

  1. Ambrosial.
    • Why ſo, euen thus the Mercury of Heauen, / Vſhers th’ambroſiate banquet of the Gods, / When a long traine of Angels in a ranke, / Serue the firſt courſe, and bow their Chriſtall knees, / Before the Siluer table; […]1601 (first performance), Thomas Dekker, Satiro-mastix. Or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Edward White, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signatures K3, verso –...
    • 'Tis very wild to look on through time in the passing bell, while man as an animal rages, his infernate passion being blind! for men and beasts, birds, and fishes, are all known by their essenced voices—vegitative music having a wide gamut in ambrosiate gales and rank poisons.1848, Susan Williamson, The Dirge; Or, A Voice in the Night

Noun

ambrosiate

  1. A crystalline substance, C₂₃H₂₅O₅Br, that is one of the common irritants that can be refined from ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia).
    • The absolute configuration of ambrosic acid a crystallographic study of p-bromophenacyl ambrosiate.1974, Bulletin signalétique 161: Cristallographie
    • p-Bromophenacyl ambrosiate was prepared by the usual method as one of the most suitable crystals for our x-ray analysis: C₂₃H₂₅O₅Br (M⁺ 461); […]2012, Akira Ohsaka, Kyozo Hayashi, Yoshio Sawai, Animal, Plant, and Microbial Toxins

Forms of ambrosiate

comparativemore ambrosiate
superlativemost ambrosiate

Origin of ambrosiate

From ambrosia + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

From ambrosia + -ate

Questions about ambrosiate

What does ambrosiate mean?
Ambrosiate means ambrosial.
What part of speech is ambrosiate?
Ambrosiate can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ambrosiate in the dictionary

  1. ambrosially
  2. ambrosian
  3. Ambrosian chant
  4. Ambrosians
  5. ambrosias
  6. ambrosiate
  7. ambrosin
  8. Ambrosini
  9. Ambrosinis
  10. Ambrosino
  11. Ambrosinos

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