ambsace

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (1)  · 
“
Aeschylus, it seems to me, is willing, just as Shakespeare is, to risk the prosperity of a verse upon a lucky throw of words, which may come up the sices of hardy metaphor or the ambsace of conceit.

Examples (1)

  • Aeschylus, it seems to me, is willing, just as Shakespeare is, to risk the prosperity of a verse upon a lucky throw of words, which may come up the sices of hardy metaphor or the ambsace of conceit. —  Among My Books First Series
 

Tags

ambsace hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 11 times.

stop updating
On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Etymologies (1)

Toggle American Heritage etymologies American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. Middle English ambes as, from Old French : Latin ambās, feminine accusative pl. of ambō, both + as, unit.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »
by American Heritage

Charts

We are still working on calculating this word's frequency.

Recently looked up

transfer · additions · tryouts · cur · utility

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

autotruncate · rimshot · qualms · poofter · oh for heaven's sake