nectarious
English
Adjective
nectarious (comparative more nectarious, superlative most nectarious)
- Alternative form of nectarous
- 1801, Fisher's Cheerful Companion to Promote Laughter:
- A poor old villager, who went in the country by the appellation of Robin, that had always earned his bread by the sweat of his brow, and to whom a morsel of fat bacon was a princely meal, had heard so much said in commendation of delicious fare, as partridges, pheasants, ortolans, and such like ; and those nectarious liquors Burgundy and Champagne, that he longed so ardently for such a regale, as to think he could be very well contented to die, provided he might first be permitted to satisfy his longing.
- 1834, The Horticultural register - Volume 3, page 372:
- In these we may presume, however, that they abound in nectarious juice since we observe that insects are particularly fond of these tribes.
- 2005, Dr. Rajbali Pandey, AtharvaVeda, →ISBN, page 98:
- May the wind in space prove pleasant for you and water nectarious.