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verb

Imbue v. t. (past & past part. imbued; pres. part. imbuing)

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles. "Thy words with grace divine Imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Imbue" Quotes from Famous Books

... and I no longer guess at my state or my prospects—loneliness is my familiar, sorrow my inseparable companion. I have endeavoured to brave the storm—I have endeavoured to school myself to fortitude—I have sought to imbue myself with the lessons of wisdom. It will not do. My hair has become nearly grey—my voice, unused now to utter sound, comes strangely on my ears. My person, with its human powers and features, seem to me a monstrous ...

— The Last Man • Mary Shelley

... and enchanting, these page-women, with their cool enticing eyes and perfect smiles, all grace and softness and glitter and swirled cloth. He touched their images with gentle fingers, stroking the tawny paper hair, as though, by some magic formula, he might imbue them with life. It was easy to imagine that these women had never really lived at all—that they were simply painted, in microscopic detail, by sly artists to give the illusion of photos. He didn't like to think about these women and how ...

— Small World • William F. Nolan

... dignity and as grand a bearing as could ever have been expected from the originals themselves. There must be a natural inborn nobility in the character of these highlanders. They could never assume or act that manner au grand seigneur with which they imbue ...

— Diary of a Pilgrimage • Jerome K. Jerome

... my life, and you have tried to do almost as much in a different way since then," he went on. "It is probably easier to bring a sick man back to health than it is to make him realize his obligations and to imbue him with the courage to face them when it's evident that he doesn't possess it. Still, you can't do things of that kind without results, and I think you ought to know that ...

— The Greater Power • Harold Bindloss

... fund of sound and elegant learning. His publications, which are chiefly on religious subjects, have been eminently useful to the world. By his literary acquisitions, his amiable disposition, and his desire to imbue the young mind with knowledge and virtue, he was qualified, in a peculiar manner, to become the instructor of youth; and for many years he superintended a very respectable academy. As the pastor of a ...

— The Book of Religions • John Hayward

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