nectared
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nectared (comparative more nectared, superlative most nectared)
- containing nectar.
- 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Caſtle, 1634.”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC, page 96:
- How charming is divine Philoſophy! / Not harſh, and crabbed as dull fools ſuppoſe, / But muſical as is Apollo's lute, / And a perpetual feaſt of nectar'd ſweets, / Where no crude ſurfet raigns.
References
[edit]- “nectared”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.