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Inspired   /ɪnspˈaɪərd/   Listen
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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"Inspired" Quotes from Famous Books



... than you will ever realize, Andrew, for taking this matter out of my hands. I left the decision up to the Almighty and evidently he inspired you to disobey me and save ...
— Kindred of the Dust • Peter B. Kyne
... mob scattered in wild confusion, and I found myself breathless in a small alley. "Come, come," cried my companion, "there is no time to lose. Hurry, hurry!" We rushed along, for the manner of the beggar inspired me with a terror I could not explain, until, after passing through several back streets and small alleys, with which the beggar seemed perfectly familiar, we emerged on a large street and soon took a ...
— Caesar's Column • Ignatius Donnelly
... to this genuine affection which Jadwin inspired in his servants by an incident which occurred in the first months of their occupancy of the new establishment. One of the gardeners discovered the fact that Jadwin affected gardenias in the lapel of ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris
... one of the very few critics who attempted to do justice to Bulwer-Lytton's merits. The Edinburgh Review found in him "a style vigorous and pliable, sometimes strangely incorrect, but often rising into a touching eloquence." Ten years later such was the private opinion of D.G. Rossetti, who was "inspired by reading Rienzi and Ernest Maltravers, which is indeed a splendid work." Now that we look back at Bulwer-Lytton's prodigious compositions, we are able to perceive more justly than did the critics of his own day what his merits were. For one thing, he was extraordinarily versatile. ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse
... That poem inspired another which should always be included in the anthology of the Mermaid. More than two centuries after Beaumont penned his rhyming epistle to Jonson, three brothers had their lodging for a brief season in Cheapside, and ...
— Inns and Taverns of Old London • Henry C. Shelley


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