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Ambrosiac

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Am´bro´si`ac
a.1.Having the qualities of ambrosia; delicious.
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Ignatius' mother, for example, is a nectar-veined "Potosi de la hermosura" whose soft, white breasts fire arrows of ambrosiac milk between the infant's seeking lips: Con blanco alterno pecho le flechaba Madre amorosa, tanto como bella, de la una y otra eburnea blanda aljaba de blanco nectar una y otra estrella; y su labio el pezon solicitaba, si en blanca nube no, dulce centella, en aquel Potosi de la hermosura, venas, de plata no, de ambrosia pura (I.
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