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reinˈspire, v.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To inspire again, in various senses.
1624Heywood Gunaik. ii. 65 She renewes and re-inspires the decayed life of a Poet. 1651Stanley Poems 54 This silk-worm (to long sleep retired) The early year hath reinspired. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 172 We oft have heard that great Deceiver say, That he would re-inspire his buried Clay. 1767Lewis Statius v. 514 No Furies were at Hand to reinspire Heroic Thoughts. 1847Ld. Lindsay Chr. Art I. 143 To be modified, filled up and reinspired from their own original resources. 1867M. Arnold Rugby Chapel 199 Ye..recall The stragglers, refresh the outworn, Praise, re-inspire the brave!
b. Const. with.
1657Bp. H. King Poems 132 What man then would, who on death's pillow slumbers, Be re-inspir'd with life..? 1697Congreve Mourn. Bride v. xii, O let me..re-inspire thy bosom With the breath of Love. 1718Pope Iliad xv. 65 Phœbus hastes great Hector to prepare.., His lab'ring bosom re-inspires with breath. 1799Triumph of Benevolence II. 371 Mrs. Mannington endeavoured to reinspire him with hope. 1861J. G. Sheppard Fall Rome ii. 67 To re-inspire an effete body with the vitality of youth. 1887Stevenson Merry Men iii. 119 The image of the dead dealer, reinspired with cunning and hatred.
2. To breathe again into something. rare—1.
1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xxxi. 535 Regeneration..is the life of God reinspired into a soul alienated from it by the power of sin.
Hence reinˈspired ppl. a.
1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, cccxx, The French..with re-inspired Sayles, Come to ayde Glendoure. |