inspirit

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English inspiriten, equivalent to in- +‎ spirit. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: in‧spi‧rit === Verb === inspirit (third-person singular simple present inspirits, present participle inspiriting, simple past and past participle inspirited) To strengthen or hearten; give impetus or vigour. 1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer[2], London: Bernard Lintot, Observations on the Fourteenth Book, Verse 30, page 129: And nothing could be better imagin’d than the reason, why the wounded Princes left their Tents; they were impatient to behold the Battel, anxious for its Success, and desirous to inspirit the Soldiers by their Presence. 2003, Robert Brustein, “Three Years after ‘1984’”, in Reimagining American Theatre[5], part II, New York: Hill & Wang: The "festival" […] this year has concerned itself largely with opera and dance, most of its pieces (perhaps in order to inspirit our AIDS-demoralized sexuality) inspired by the Don Juan motif. To fill or imbue with spirit. 2002, Nel Noddings, Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy, part 2, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, page 124: Human beings, even fully mature adults, are neither detached rationalities nor mere collections of responses to environmental stimuli. They are inspirited, thinking bodies, and it is their bodies that launch the development of selves through a multitude of complex encounters. ==== Synonyms ==== (to hearten): invigorate (to imbue with spirit): ensoul ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ====