Definitions for Ambrosian

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Ambrosian Am·bro·sian

Spelling: [am-broh-zhuh n]

IPA: /æmˈbroʊ ʒən/

Ambrosian is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 582 anagrams from letters in Ambrosian (aabimnors).

Definitions for Ambrosian

adjective

1. Roman Catholic Church. pertaining to the religious congregations under the protection of Saint Ambrose. pertaining to the ancient liturgy of the church of Milan.
2. (lowercase) ambrosial.
3. exceptionally pleasing to taste or smell; especially delicious or fragrant.
4. worthy of the gods; divine.

Origin of Ambrosian

First recorded in 1590-1600; ambrosi(a) + -al¹

Examples for Ambrosian

The style of these miniatures is very different and artistically very inferior to that of the Ambrosian Iliad.

Montgomery had the Ambrosian gift of spiritual song-writing.

The folio volume of sketches in the Ambrosian Library at Milan contains designs for all these works.

On reaching Milan, the travellers visited the Ambrosian library.

We wished to go to the Ambrosian Library, and we did that also.

Thus the old Ambrosian chant is known at present only through the medium of the Gregorian.

And some documents in the Ambrosian library give colour to this conjecture.

He introduced the Ambrosian Chant, a mode of singing more monotonous than the Gregorian, which superseded it.

For them he painted the magnificent frescoes now in the Ambrosian Library.

When at Milan, I was taken, as a matter of course, to visit the Ambrosian library.