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c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 6 Whan zephirus eek w^t his sweete breeth Inspired hath in euery holt and heeth The tendre croppes.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. viii. (MS. Cott. Aug. A. iv) And zephirus ful agreable and smoþe Þe tendre branchis enspireþ and doþe springe.

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Inspire, breath or blow into.

a1657 [implied in: G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV cccxx, in Poems (1878) IV. 81 The French mean-while, with re-inspired Sayles Come to ayde Glendoure. (at reinspired adj. at reinspire v. Derivatives)].

1700 J. Dryden To Dutchess of Ormond in Fables sig. A2 A soft Etesian Gale But just inspir'd, and gently swell'd the Sail.

1709 A. Pope Spring in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 724 Let my Muse her slender Reed inspire.

1713 A. Pope Ode Musick 1 Descend ye Nine!..The breathing Instruments inspire.

1785 W. Cowper Task ii. 353 He stands, and with swoln cheeks Inspires the News, his trumpet.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xi. 15 And, that scho [Juno] suld go spedely, The prosper wind gan eftir hir inspyre.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. iii. sig. P3 When the winde emongst them [sc. locks of hair] did inspyre.

1536 Prymer Salysbery Use (STC 15992) f. cxlv His dulcetnesse hath none enspyred All alone he is to be desyred.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. iv. f. 119^v By pestilent diseases & maladies, which..inspyreth infection into our bodyes.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V7 An huge great payre of bellowes, which did styre Continually, and cooling breath inspyre.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 311 With th' ayre of these sweet words, the wilie Snake A poysned ayre inspired..In Eues frail brest.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 804 Assaying..if, inspiring venom, he might taint Th' animal Spirits that from pure blood arise. View more context for this quotation

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 415 Unseen, unfelt, the fiery Serpent skims Betwixt her Linnen, and her naked Limbs, His baneful Breath inspiring, as he glides.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xv. 11 He kneȝ not [Him] that made hym, and that enspirede to hym a soule.

1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 26 In their mothers wombes..Doth in all sonnes of men their Soules inspire.

1611 C. Tourneur Atheist's Trag. (new ed.) v. sig. K3 Inspire new life into their bodies.

1657 Lusts Dominion i. iii. sig. B7^v Dry your wet eies, for sorrow wanteth force T'inspire a breathing soul in a dead coarse.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 785 Least that pure breath of Life, the Spirit of Man Which God inspir'd, cannot together perish With this corporeal Clod. View more context for this quotation

1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun II. v. 53 Out of his bitter agony, a soul and intellect, I could almost say, have been inspired into him.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 174 The southern wynd enspirith bettir wyn.

1528 [implied in: T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni 2 A ij b Inspirynge of hotte aier..by breathyng of warme aier, the mattier is warmed and riped. (at inspiring n.)].

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxviii. 16 By means of those Sulphurous coal smoaks the lungs are..stifled and extremely oppressed, whereby they are forced to inspire and expire the air with Difficulty, in comparison to the facility of inspiring and expiring the Air in the Country.

1761 Descr. S. Carolina 19 The Air we walk in and inspire.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 279 It seems, according to him, forty-three cubic inches are always inspired at once.

1871 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. xii. 261 Animals, which inspire oxygen, and expire carbonic acid.

1661 [implied in: I. Walton Compl. Angler (ed. 3) i. i. 9 If the inspiring and expiring Organ of any animal be stopt, it suddenly dies. (at inspiring adj. 1b)].

1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 351 The method..is, to make the patient inspire, as much as he possibly can.

1861 F. H. Ramadge Curability of Consumption 36 When the patient inspired, a slight protrusion took place where the wound had been.

1894 Times 5 Mar. 14/4 A man who hunched up his shoulders every time he inspired.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxlvii. 7 Alsone as his gaste enspiris þaire hert.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 189 In þe cop þerof is the temple of Delphicus Apollo; and in þe wyndynge of þe myddel playn is a pitte, oute of þat pitte philosofres were enspired.

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 9 If paraunter goddis grace to þat þame wald enspyr.

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 897 As god inspired hir forth sho went.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 678 Gif that he enspirit [1489 Adv. inspyrit] war Of him, that all thing euirmar Seis in his presciens.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 498/1 As that holi spirite enspired mo then them that wrote, so enspired he the writers in mo thinges then they wrote.

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. i. 66 Appollo..Inspire me that I may this treason finde. View more context for this quotation

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxix. 169 Such private men as pretend to be supernaturally Inspired.

1718 I. Watts O Thou that Hear'st in Psalms of David viii O may thy Love inspire my Tongue.

1874 J. Parker Paraclete i. iii. 20 Few, indeed, may have been inspired to speak the word, but all have been inspired to feel it.

1884 Nonconformist & Independent 7 Feb. 131/2 The Church has decided that writers are inspired who if inspired, have been inspired to suggest to all ordinary judgments that they are not inspired.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 75 My fader, but I were enspired Through love of you.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 261 Experience dois me so inspyr, Off this fals failȝeand warld I tyre.

1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Hiv He enspired the kinge that the quene was not his wife.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients Ded. sig. A3 Feeling my selfe inspired with courage by the signification of your noble desire..I stoutly fell to my taske.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 124 Three of the Commissioners..were all inspir'd by the Scots, and liked well all that they pretended to desire.

1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision Ded. p. iv The chief Motives, that Inspire me with the Respect I bear You.

1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. 445 That the Romans..only sought to inspire them with a wholesome terror.

1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 198 Poverty inspires necessity with daring.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xvii. 243 As holyness and honeste out of holy churche Spryngeþ and spredeþ and enspireþ þe peuple.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 227 What zeale, what furie, hath inspirde thee now? View more context for this quotation

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 451 Long as life this mortal shall inspire.

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna vi. ix. 132 Deliberate will Inspired our growing troop.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. vi. 57 She felt it good to be inspired..by the belief in a heroism struggling for divine ends.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Tim. iii. 16 Al scripture of God ynspyrid is profitable to teche, to arguwe..to reproue, or for to [emended in ed. to for to] lerne in riȝtwysnesse.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. GGiii^v It is to suppose, that all the rules of relygion were inspyred to the holy sayntes and fathers by the holy goost.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. G4^v The Poet..calleth the sweete Muses to inspire into him a good inuention.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. xiv. §6. 360 Yet hath not that spirit the light of vnderstanding, vnlesse the Father of Lights inspire the same into him.

1889 J. Ruskin Præterita III. iv. 163 Melodies which have been, not invented, but inspired, to all nations in the days of their loyalty to God, to their prince, and to themselves.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Lentulus in Panoplie Epist. 50 [Which] inspireth into their stomaches such yll beseeming manners.

1683 Apol. Protestants France ii. 17 They who inspire into the King such strange Acts.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 386 Fatima has..an air that inspires at once Respect and tenderness.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) II. xlii. 580 He inspired terror to the enemy and a just confidence to the troops.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. i. vii. 223 He..endeavored to inspire a confidence in others which he was far from feeling himself.

1884 Manch. Examiner 26 May 4/7 The course..is calculated to strengthen..the distrust which their erratic career tends to inspire.