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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



... Such help, as favour wins in Paradise. The other, nearest, who adorns our quire, Was Peter, he that with the widow gave To holy church his treasure. The fifth light, Goodliest of all, is by such love inspired, That all your world craves tidings of its doom: Within, there is the lofty light, endow'd With sapience so profound, if truth be truth, That with a ken of such wide amplitude No second hath arisen. ...
— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri
... Eustace Le Neve worked away with a will at the idea for his viaduct. As he rightly wrote to Cleer, the need itself inspired him. Love is a great engineer, and Eustace learned fast from him. He was full of the fresh originality of youth; and the place took his fancy and impressed itself upon him. Gazing at it each day, there rose up slowly by ...
— Michael's Crag • Grant Allen
... inspired the pure breeze, health spread a deeper blush upon her countenance, and ...
— The Mysteries of Udolpho • Ann Radcliffe
... and women who gathered there to worship in their quiet, undemonstrative way the Power who had led them to this land of freedom. But the Word preached to these silent listeners in that rude building inspired within them those principles upon which the foundation of the best citizenship of our ...
— In Ancient Albemarle • Catherine Albertson
... application to women. The idea of women's emancipation was alive among their principles. One can name its parents, and one marvels not at all that it seized this mind and the other, but that any mind among the professors of the "new philosophy" contrived to escape it. The central thought, which inspired the gospel of perfectibility has a meaning for men which an enlightened mind can grasp, but it tells the plain obvious fact ...
— Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle • H. N. Brailsford


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