4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Inspire \In*spire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Inspired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inspiring}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to {expire}. [1913 Webster] 2. To breathe; to blow gently. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] And when the wind amongst them did inspire, They wav[`e]d like a penon wide dispread. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Inspired \In*spired"\, a. 1. Breathed in; inhaled. [1913 Webster] 2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 4. Moved to a higher level of thought, creativity, or motivation. [PJC] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: inspired adj : of such surpassing excellence as to suggest divine inspiration; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance" [syn: {divine}, {elysian}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 57 Moby Thesaurus words for "inspired": Biblical, Gospel, Mosaic, New-Testament, Old-Testament, afire, apocalyptic, apostolic, appropriate, apt, canonical, comely, conceptive, conceptual, correct, creative, esemplastic, evangelic, evangelistic, fecund, felicitous, fertile, fired, fit, fitting, germinal, gospel, happy, ideational, ideative, imaginative, ingenious, inventive, just, notional, on fire, original, originative, pregnant, productive, prolific, proper, prophetic, revealed, revelational, scriptural, seemly, seminal, shaping, teeming, textual, textuary, theopneustic, visioned, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-put
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