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imbreathe, v.|ɪmˈbriːð|
Also 6 imbrethe, 7 imbreath.
[f. im-1 + breathe v.; partly a variant of embreathe, partly of inbreathe.]
1. trans. To breathe in, inhale. Also fig.
1574J. Jones Nat. Beginning Grow. Things 14 The hart cooled by the dayly imbrething of y⊇ aire. 1871Farrar Witn. Hist. iv. 131 The curse of a Paganism..must have been imbreathed with the first lessons of consciousness even by innocent childhood.
2. a. To inspire, instil. b. To inspire with.
1601Bp. W. Barlow Eagle & Body (1609) F ij a, The Soules..returning vnto God, who first imbreathed them. 1641H. Ainsworth Orth. Found. Relig. 19 His soule was imbreathed of God. 1647Trapp Comm. Rev. xxii. 6 Those holy men spake no otherwise then as they were acted or imbreathed by the holy Ghost. 1657― Comm. Ps. xl. 3, I cannot breath out a desire after him, except he first imbreath me therewith. 1811W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXI. 345 A sceptical philosophy..pervades the treatise, which imbreathes contentment and philanthropy. 1825Coleridge Aids Refl. 4 God transfused into man a higher gift and imbreathed a self-subsisting soul.
Hence imˈbreathed ppl. a., inhaled, imbibed; imˈbreathing vbl. n., inhaling, inspiration.
1574[see 1]. 1691E. Taylor Behmen's Theos. Philos. 237 The Imbreathing whence Man became a Living Soul. 1841Clough Early P. x. 8 Imbreathed draughts of wine. |