Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing an aromatic principle; aromatic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Aromatic.

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  • adjective obsolete aromatic

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Examples

  • Fourthly, they should have ardent prayer, amorous and devout, and this is signified by the incense which is burnt upon the altar, and then it hath virtue to ascend by the lightness of the fume, and to comfort by his quality, and to conjoin by the gum, and to confirm by that it is aromatous or well smelling.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

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