verb (inspired; inspiring)
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French inspirer, from Latin inspirare, from in- + spirare to breathe
Date: 14th century
transitive verb
1. to influence, move, or guide by divine or supernatural inspiration, to exert an animating, enlivening, or exalting influence on , to spur on ; impel , motivate , affect ,
2. to breathe or blow into or upon, to infuse (as life) by breathing,
3. to communicate to an agent supernaturally, to draw forth or bring out , inhale 1,
5. bring about , occasion , incite , to spread (rumor) by indirect means or through the agency of another, intransitive verb inhale , inspirer noun
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