inbreathe
Americanverb
Etymology
Origin of inbreathe
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at in- 1, breathe
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The human form in the work of Pheidias wore a joyous and sedate serenity; in that of Michael Angelo it is turbid with a strange and awful sense of inbreathed agitation.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts 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
They are not the inevitable products of creative genius, fusing and informing—the children of imagination, "dead things with inbreathed sense able to pierce."
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo
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)
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
Afterwards she went for a tramp on the moors, and steadied her nerve by the rapid swing of her walk, and the deep inbreathing of that glorious air.
From The Rosary by Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)
The descriptions, graphic as they undoubtedly are, lack for the most part the final imaginative touch; the kind of inbreathing of life which afterwards gave such individual charm to Dickens' word-painting.
From Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas)
An inbreathing silence fell upon stands and field, quiet, like a lull before a storm.
From The Redheaded Outfield by Grey, Zane
Never did I hear any thing more sonorously grand and awful than that portentous inbreathing of Gog and Magog, resounding through the Gothic vastness of Guildhall; but, behold! how omnipotent is the dreaming imagination!
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828 by Various
I sat in meditation two days and two nights, abstracting my mind; inbreathing and outbreathing in the required manner. . . .
From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard
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