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Inspired   /ɪnspˈaɪərd/   Listen
Inspired

adjective
1.
Being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods.  Synonyms: divine, elysian.  "The divine Shakespeare" , "An elysian meal" , "An inspired performance"


Inspire

verb
(past & past part. inspired; pres. part. inspiring)
1.
Heighten or intensify.  Synonyms: animate, enliven, exalt, invigorate.
2.
Supply the inspiration for.
3.
Serve as the inciting cause of.  Synonyms: instigate, prompt.
4.
Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts.  Synonyms: barrack, cheer, exhort, pep up, root on, urge, urge on.
5.
Fill with revolutionary ideas.  Synonyms: revolutionise, revolutionize.
6.
Draw in (air).  Synonyms: breathe in, inhale.  "Inhale the fresh mountain air" , "The patient has trouble inspiring" , "The lung cancer patient cannot inspire air very well"



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"Inspired" Quotes from Famous Books



... connection with Griffiths not being quite severed. Then he drifted back to Peckham again; and was once more installed as usher, Dr. Milner being in especial want of an assistant at this time. Goldsmith's lingering about the gates of literature had not inspired him with any great ambition to enter the enchanted land. But at the same time he thought he saw in literature a means by which a little ready money might be made, in order to help him on to something more definite and substantial; ...
— Goldsmith - English Men of Letters Series • William Black
... be, learned or scientific. The scholar is exceptional, just the same as a great admiral like Nelson is, or a grand soldier like Caesar or Napoleon. But the leader, the creative and organizing mind, is the master-need in all the societies of man. But, if they are not inspired with the notion of leadership and duty, then with all their Latin and Greek and science they are but pedants, trimmers, opportunists. For all true and lofty scholarship is weighty with the burdens and responsibilities ...
— Civilization the Primal Need of the Race - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 • Alexander Crummell
... primitive thing, by demonstrating (what is also demonstrated by the cyclopean vestiges, the pyramids of Egypt, the gigantic Hindoo pagodas) that the greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius; the deposit left by a whole people; the heaps accumulated by centuries; the residue of successive evaporations of human society,—in a word, species of formations. Each ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo
... have been spared from home. She had to help her mother; to be governess as well as pupil, teaching the younger children for part of every day. No! Ella was impossible; but the craving for companionship grew so intense that it even conquered the dread inspired by her other companion, and strengthened her to ...
— Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... participate, he deigns to dwell Like one of us; and daily treasures up A store of purest merit for himself, By the protection of our holy rites. In his own person wondrously are joined Both majesty and saintlike holiness; And often chanted by inspired bards [40], His hallowed title of 'Imperial Sage' Ascends in joyous accents ...
— Sakoontala or The Lost Ring - An Indian Drama • Kalidasa


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