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inbreathe

American  
[in-breeth, in-breeth] / ˈɪnˌbrið, ɪnˈbrið /

verb (used with object)

inbreathed, inbreathing
  1. to breathe in; inhale.

  2. to inspire; infuse with.


inbreathe British  
/ ɪnˈbriːð /

verb

  1. rare (tr) to infuse or imbue

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of inbreathe

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at in- 1, breathe

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The grove of pillars through which the pageant passed grew from the living rock into shapes of beauty, fulfilling by the inbreathed spirit of man Nature's blind yearning after absolute completion.

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington

Spirit should converse with spirit, through no veil of symbol, but through the transparent medium of art, itself instinct with inbreathed life and radiant with ideal beauty.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by Symonds, John Addington

And the divine Procedure inbreathed upon the disclosure, and the disclosure became the universe.”

From Modern Spiritualism by Smith, Uriah

The character of the gospels and the letters must have been due to something that Jesus said or that the Holy Spirit inbreathed.

From The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10 Drummond to Jowett, and General Index by Kleiser, Grenville

Both the scribe and the Scripture, both the man of God and the word of God were divinely inbreathed.

From The Ministry of the Spirit by Gordon, A. J. (Adoniram Judson)

I sat in meditation two days and two nights, abstracting my mind; inbreathing and outbreathing in the required manner ...

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

It is an inspired Book, and inspiration is the inbreathing of God himself.

From And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses by Chapman, J. Wilbur

The Scriptures came by the inbreathing of God, 2 Tim.

From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William

Inspiration, then, as defined by Paul in this passage, is the strong, conscious inbreathing of God into men, qualifying them to give utterance to truth.

From The Great Doctrines of the Bible by Evans, William

Too much inbreathing and too violent an effort at inhaling will not help the singer at all.

From Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing by Caruso, Enrico

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