inspirit

Verb

inspirit (third-person singular simple present inspirits, present participle inspiriting, simple past and past participle inspirited)

1. To strengthen or hearten; give impetus or vigour.
   • Ah! must wee live, and see so sudden dead
     The Life that late our lives inspirited?c. 1615, Pierre Matthieu, “The Tropheis of the Vertues and Fortune of Henrie the Great”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Works of Du Bartas, London, c., published 1641, page 548
   • 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.1718, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, London: Bernard Lintot, Observations on the Fourteenth Book, Verse 30, page 129
2. To fill or imbue with spirit.
   • […] the Assurance we have of the Existence of Beings above our Sense, and of Thee, (the great Exemplar of thy Works) comes from Thee, the All-True, and Perfect, who hast thus communicated thy-self more immediately to us, so as in some manner to inhabit within our Souls; Thou who art Original Soul...1709, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, “The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody”, in Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, volume II, London, published 1732, pages 369–370
   • 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.2002, Nel Noddings, Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy, part 2, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, page 124

   Synonyms:

   ensoul