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▪ I. † suˈspire, n. Obs.
[a. OF. s(o)uspir (mod.F. soupir) = Pr. sospir, It. sospiro, Sp., Pg. suspiro, or ad. L. suspīrium, f. suspīrāre: see next.]
A sigh.
c1450Envoy to Alison 25 Suspiris which I effunde in silence! 1549Compl. Scot. vii. 70 The quhilk reproche sche pronuncit vitht mony dolorus suspiris. 1595Locrine v. iv. 2 The circuit of the azure sky Throwes forth sad throbs and grieuous suspirs. 1610Heywood Gold. Age i. i. Wks. 1874 III. 12 Gods are neuer touch't with my suspires, Passions and throbs. 1637― Pleas. Dial. ii. Wks. 1874 VI. 130 Whence came that deep suspire?
▪ II. suspire, v. Now chiefly poet.|səˈspaɪə(r)|
[ad. L. suspīrāre (whence OF. sospirer, mod.F. soupirer, Pr. sospirar, It. -are, Sp., Pg. suspirar), f. su- sub- 26 + spīrāre to breathe.]
1. intr. To sigh; rare in lit. sense; chiefly fig. to sigh or long for, yearn after.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. xxxvii. 107 To be prouoked to hyer þinges, &..to suspire þerto by desire. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 532/2 Suspyring and sighing after the sight of god. a1542Wyatt Poet. Wks., ‘Absens absenting’ vi, To rejoise my wofull herte With sighis suspiring most rufullie. 1610Hellish Councell practised by Jesuites 18 Thy happinesse giues vs leaue to respire, thy absence iustly compels vs to suspire, and the place where we make no doubt thou art, makes vs thither to aspire. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa i. Pref. 12 Prayer..consists more in sighing and suspiring after that object, that it is already convinced most to deserve its love. 1855Browning Serenade at Villa 12 Earth turned in her sleep with pain, Sultrily suspired for proof. 1887‘Q’ Dead Man's Rock 294 Every note breathing pathos or suspiring in tremulous anguish.
2. trans. To utter with a sigh, to sigh forth. Also, to breathe out.
1549Compl. Scot. vii. 70 Sche began to suspire lamentabil regrettis. 1865J. Thomson Art iii. ii, Did he ever suspire a tender lay. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. x. 997 A bolt from heaven..suspiring flame. 1904Blackw. Mag. Nov. 677 How lustily the bellows did suspire Breath for the flames!
3. intr. To breathe.
1595Shakes. John iii. iv. 80 Since the birth of Caine, the first male-childe To him that did but yesterday suspire. 1597― 2 Hen. IV, iv. v. 33 Did hee suspire, that light and weightlesse dowlne Perforce must moue. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh vii. 1061 Fire-flies, that suspire In short soft lapses of transported flame. 1866Swinburne Poems & Ball., Hermaphroditus 10 Their breath is fire upon the amorous air, Fire in thine eyes and where thy lips suspire.
Hence † suˈspired ppl. a., longed for; † suˈspiring vbl. n., sighing, a sigh.
1549Compl. Scot. i. 23 The lamentabil suspiring that procedit fra my dolorus hart. a1639Wotton Medit. Christmas Day in Reliq. (1651) 351 The long Suspired Redeemer of the World. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa i. Pref. 9 Prayer..by interior frequent suspirings and ejaculations interposed. |