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verb

Inspire v. t.

1.

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate. "When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath, Inspirèd hath in every holt and heath The tender crops." "Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, The breathing instruments inspire."

2.

To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing. "He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul."

3.

To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; opposed to expire. "Forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty."

4.

To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration. "And generous stout courage did inspire." "But dawning day new comfort hath inspired."

5.

To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue; to inspire a person to do extraordinary feats. "Erato, thy poet's mind inspire, And fill his soul with thy celestial fire."

Inspire v. i. (past & past part. inspired; pres. part. inspiring)

1.

To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; opposed to expire.

2.

To breathe; to blow gently. (Obs.) "And when the wind amongst them did inspire, They wavèd like a penon wide dispread."

adjective

Inspired adj.

1.

Breathed in; inhaled.

2.

Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers.

3.

Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine authority; hence, sacred, holy; opposed to uninspired, profane, or secular; as, the inspired writings, that is, the Scriptures.

4.

Moved to a higher level of thought, creativity, or motivation.

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Etymology of 'Inspired'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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