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inspirational, a.|ɪnspɪˈreɪʃənəl|
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Deriving its character or substance from inspiration; under the influence of inspiration; inspired.
1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. ii. xiii. §2. 290 Their formal, official, inspirational, miraculous duty. 1876G. H. Pember Earth's Earliest Ages (1893) 349 An inspirational address by..a well-known trance-speaker. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 321 In their inspirational states they [the sacred writers] were sometimes dynamical, sometimes mechanical. 1890A. Lang in Longm. Mag. Jan. 334 The daughter of a distinguished medium and inspirational lecturer.
2. Of, or pertaining to, inspiration.
1888Horton Inspiration & Bible iv. 104 Inspirational Dogma. 1899Daily News 21 Sept. 7/3 Dr. Pusey recoiled from the very shadow of an appearance of treating the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures as if they stood on the same inspirational level as other Asiatic Scriptures.
3. Imparting inspiration; tending to inspire.
1884Harper's Mag. Jan. 187/2 He [Whittier] is not an inspirational writer. 1895H. C. Macpherson Carlyle ix. 160 In the sphere of ethics, Carlyle's influence has been inspirational in the highest sense.
Hence inspiˈrationalist, a person whose influence is inspirational, or who aims at inspiring others; inspiˈrationally adv., in an inspirational manner, under the influence of inspiration.
1884H. Jennings Phallicism xiv. 148 Bohm wrote inspirationally—that is, altogether from the interior vision. 1895H. C. Macpherson Carlyle ix. 152 The influence of the inspirationalist is ever-enduring. |