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Spired
(gcide) | Spired \Spired\, a.
Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired
steeple. --Mason.
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Spired
(gcide) | Spire \Spire\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Spired; p. pr. & vb. n.
Spiring.]
To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire. --Emerson.
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It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being
more inclined to branch into arms. --Mortimer.
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inspired
(mass) | inspired
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conspired
(encz) | conspired,spiknutý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
inspired
(encz) | inspired,geniální adj: Zdeněk Brožinspired,inspirovaný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
respired
(encz) | respired, |
transpired
(encz) | transpired,stal se Zdeněk Brožtranspired,udál se Zdeněk Brožtranspired,ukázal se Zdeněk Brožtranspired,vyšel najevo Zdeněk Brož |
uninspired
(encz) | uninspired,nenápaditý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Aspired
(gcide) | Aspire \As*pire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Aspired; p. pr. & vb.
n. Aspiring.] [F. aspirer, L. aspirare. See Aspirate, v.
t.]
1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high
or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after,
and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire
after immorality.
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Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell;
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. --Pope.
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2. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
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My own breath still foments the fire,
Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. --Waller.
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Conspired
(gcide) | Conspire \Con*spire"\ (k[o^]n*sp[imac]r"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Conspired (k[o^]n*sp[imac]rd"); p. pr. & vb. n.
Conspiring.] [F. conspirer, L. conspirare to blow together,
harmonize, agree, plot; con- + spirare to breathe, blow. See
Spirit.]
1. To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some
act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some
unlawful deed; to plot together.
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They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him. --Gen.
xxxvii. 18.
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You have conspired against our royal person,
Joined with an enemy proclaimed. --Shak.
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2. To concur to one end; to agree.
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The press, the pulpit, and the stage
Conspire to censure and expose our age. --Roscommon.
Syn: To unite; concur; complot; confederate; league.
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Inspired
(gcide) | Inspire \In*spire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inspired; p. pr. &
vb. n. Inspiring.]
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1. To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; --
opposed to expire.
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2. To breathe; to blow gently. [Obs.]
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And when the wind amongst them did inspire,
They wav[`e]d like a penon wide dispread. --Spenser.
[1913 Webster]Inspired \In*spired"\, a.
1. Breathed in; inhaled.
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2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence;
affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets;
the inspired writers.
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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.
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4. Moved to a higher level of thought, creativity, or
motivation.
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Perspired
(gcide) | Perspire \Per*spire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Perspired; p. pr. &
vb. n. Perspiring.] [L. perspirare to breathe through; per
+ spirare. See Per-, and Spirit.]
1. (Physiol.) To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to
excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.
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2. To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the
pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.
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Respired
(gcide) | Respire \Re*spire"\ (r?*sp?r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Respired
(-sp?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Respiring.] [L. respirare,
respiratum; pref. re- re- + spirare to breathe: cf. F.
respirer. See Spirit.]
1. To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment.
--Spenser.
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Here leave me to respire. --Milton.
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From the mountains where I now respire. --Byron.
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2. (Physiol.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and
exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of
maintaining the vitality of the blood.
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Suspired
(gcide) | Suspired \Sus*pired"\, a.
Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted. [Obs.]
--Sir H. Wotton.
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Transpired
(gcide) | Transpire \Tran*spire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Transpired; p.
pr. & vb. n. Transpiring.] [F. transpirer; L. trans across,
through + spirare to breathe. See Spirit.]
1. (Physiol.) To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible
perspiration; to exhale.
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2. (Bot.) To evaporate from living cells.
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3. To escape from secrecy; to become public; as, the
proceedings of the council soon transpired.
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The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual
attachment had transpired through many of the
travelers. --De Quincey.
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4. To happen or come to pass; to occur.
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Note: This sense of the word, which is of comparatively
recent introduction, is common in the United States,
especially in the language of conversation and of
newspaper writers, and is used to some extent in
England. Its use, however, is censured by critics of
both countries.
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Uninspired
(gcide) | Uninspired \Uninspired\
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inspired
(wn) | inspired
adj 1: being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest
inspiration by the gods; "her pies were simply divine";
"the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired
performance" [syn: divine, elysian, inspired] |
uninspired
(wn) | uninspired
adj 1: having no intellectual or emotional or spiritual
excitement; "the production was professional but
uninspired"
2: deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of
invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality";
"unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired
writing" [syn: sterile, unimaginative, uninspired,
uninventive] |
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