a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Relating to love, amatory.
1601. Holland, Pliny (1634), II. 40. This root had an amatorious propertie to win loue. Ibid. (1603), Plutarch’s Mor., 27. These and such like amatorious words.
1649. Milton, Eikonokl., 12. The vaine amatorious Poem of Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia.
