imbreathev.
/ɪmˈbriːð/ 1. transitive. To breathe in, inhale. Also figurative.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > inhalation > inhale [verb (transitive)]
to suck inc1220
drawa1300
inbreathea1382
to draw ina1398
to take in1495
inhaust1547
fetch1552
fet1556
imbreathe1574
to breathe in1576
attract1582
suck?1614
inspirate1615
imbibe1621
inspire1666
redistend1684
inhale1725
embreathe1867
indraw1883
1574 J. Jones Briefe Disc. Growing & Liuing Things 14 The hart cooled by the dayly imbrething of ye aire.
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iv. 131 The curse of a Paganism..must have been imbreathed with the first lessons of consciousness even by innocent childhood.
2.
a. To inspire, instil.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > introduce or bring something in [verb (transitive)] > infuse
sheda1325
bedew1340
distil1393
informa1398
transfusec1425
pourc1451
infudea1500
infuse1526
tan1530
colour1536
suck1549
imbrue1565
dewc1572
inspire1576
steep1603
infect1605
imbreathe1609
impregn1652
transfund1670
influence1691
bleed1866
render1885
taste1904
1609 Bp. W. Barlow Eagle & Body sig. F2 The Soules..returning vnto God, who first imbreathed them.
1642 H. Ainsworth Orthodox Found. Relig. 19 His soule was imbreathed of God.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rev. xxii. 6) Those holy men spake no otherwise then as they were acted or imbreathed by the holy Ghost.
1811 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 31 345 A sceptical philosophy..pervades the treatise, which imbreathes contentment and philanthropy.
1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 4 God transfused into man a higher gift, and specially imbreathed..a living (that is, self-subsisting) soul.
b. To inspire with.
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1657 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms xl. 3 I cannot breath out a desire after him, except he first imbreath me therewith.
Derivatives
imˈbreathed adj. inhaled, imbibed.
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1849 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 21 Imbreathed draughts of wine.
imˈbreathing n. inhaling, inspiration.
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1574 [see sense 1].
1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 237 The Imbreathing whence Man became a Living Soul.
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