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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Suggestive of ambrosia; fragrant or delicious. See Synonyms at delicious.
  2. adj. Of or worthy of the gods; divine.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to ambrosia; partaking of the nature or qualities of ambrosia; anointed or fragrant with ambrosia; hence, delighting the taste or smell; delicious; fragrant; sweet-smelling: as, ambrosial dews.
  2. Pertaining to the senses of taste and smell: a forced use.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Greek mythology Pertaining to or worthy of the gods.
  2. adj. Succulently sweet or fragrant; balmy, divine.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious.
  2. adj. Divinely excellent or beautiful.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant
  2. adj. worthy of the gods

Etymologies

  1. From ambrosia +‎ -al. (Wiktionary)

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  • brtom Thus while God spake, ambrosial fragrance fill'd
    All Heav'n ...

    Milton, Paradise Lost III Dec 18, 2006

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