Also Amreeta. [ad. Skr. ámṛita, ám’rta (= Gr. ἄμ(β)ροτος) immortal, f. a priv. + m’rta dead, f. m’r die. (The vowel is erroneously lengthened in the anglicized adaptation of Southey and Moore.)] Immortal, ambrosial … (See Notes to Southey’s Kehama, xxiv. (1850), 626.)
1810. Southey, Kehama, xxiv. The Amreeta-cup of immortality.
1815. Moore, Lt. Harem, 333. The divine Amrita tree, That blesses heaven’s inhabitants With fruits of immortality.
