† inblowv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To blow or breathe into:
a. to inflate, puff up.
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the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > inflate with pride [verb (transitive)]
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1042 Charter in Land-Charters (Earle) 242 Gif ænig þonne sy uppahofen & inblawen on þa oferhyda þære geættredan deofles lare.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. viii. 1 Soþely science [gloss or kunnynge] inblowiþ [gloss wiþ pride]: charite edifieth.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. iv. 6 Oon aȝens anothir be inblowyn with pride.
b. to inspire (also in bad sense).
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the mind > emotion > excitement > inspiration > inspire [verb (transitive)]
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to work up1681
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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > inspiration or revelation > inspire [verb (transitive)]
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c975 Rushw. Gosp. John xx. 22 In-bleow on hine & cwæð him on-foað ðone halgan gast.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iii. 134 Bewitched Enthusiasts..acted by a dark, narrow and captivated Principle of Life, and, to use their own Language, In-blown by it.
Derivatives
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the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] > inciting or instigating > inspiring > inspired
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1678 H. More Let. 25 May 48 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) Whether the inspired Scripture, or these inblown Buffoons, puffed up with nothing but ignorance..are to be believed.
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in-blow
(i) With nouns of action, with the sense ‘moving or directed inwards towards a point’, as in-blow, inpull, inpush, in-swerve, inwash. See also inburst n., incast n., income n.1, infare n., inpour n., inrush n., etc.
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OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Josh. (Claud.) ii. 11 Aswearc ure mod, & ure gast forhtode to eowrum infærelde [L. ad introitum vestrum].
a1400 Psalter (Harl.) xvii. 18 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 149 In-sprout [a1400 Vesp. For þi snibbing..For onesprute of gast of wreth þine].
a1450 ( tr. Vegetius De Re Militari (Douce) (1988) f. 60 Þere were in þat place so many wondirful tornynges and wendingges. And þerfore it was yclepid Laberinthus, quasi labens intus, an inslippe, for a man myȝte slippe or slide in so fer he schulde neuere conne come out aȝen.
1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures vii. 32 Your puffe, your crosse-puffe, your expuffe, your inpuffe vppon the face of a tender infant.
1849 Paxton's Mag. Bot. 16 358 These shrubs stand as screens only, and effectually do they obstruct the ingaze of passers-by.
1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 374 This inpush from a freeze never occurs where a cellar is kept warm, but the retain or guard wall of an outside stairway, and other outdoor walls, are often thus pushed.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail xxx. 208 He rushed on Dyer, and with one full, clean in-blow stretched him stunned on the dock.
1911 ‘B. L. Putman Weale’ Unknown God ii. ii. 386 The rafts, swept nearer by the inpull of the bank, were now visible in every detail to the naked eye.
1933 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 11 Oct. 9/3 If a fast bowler desires to bowl an in-swerve or a ball swerving into a right hand batsman's body, it is necessary to grip the ball with the stitches running perpendicularly alongside the index finger.
2011 Palynology 35 147/2 Falling flowers, pollen clumps and surface inwash probably contribute a significant proportion of the pollen arriving in small forest hollows.
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