Word Finder - imbued

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To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.

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The shirt was imbued with his scent.

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In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

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The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.

He was educated in Lyons, and from an early age was imbued with royalist principles.

Although his kingdom was nominally independent of Carthage, it really stood to it in a relation of vassalage; it was directly under Carthaginian influences, and was imbued to a very considerable extent with Carthaginian civilization.

There is no evidence that the earliest Christians were imbued with the archaeological spirit that interested itself in sites which the Risen Lord had vacated.

The function reads one full line, and the string it contains is converted according to the locale imbued on the stream.

The style of Deuteronomy, when once it had been formed, lent itself readily to imitation; and thus a school of writers, imbued with its spirit, and using its expressions, quickly arose, who have left their mark upon many parts of the Old Testament.

The compiler is strongly imbued with the spirit of Deuteronomy; and the object of his comments is partly to exhibit the chronology of the period as he conceived it, partly to state his theory of the religious history of the time.

Early becoming imbued with strong anti-slavery views, though by inheritance he was himself a slave holder, he began political life as a Whig, but when the Whig party disintegrated, he became an "American" or "Know-Nothing," and as such served in the national House of Representatives from 1855 to 1861.

But the main factor in evolutionary process was undoubtedly the formation of hs, which brought gods of independent origin into relation ii one another, and thus imbued them with human passions virtues.

There are frequent Stifle allegories, just as in the Makhzan; and quite imbued with pantheistic ideas is, for instance, the final episode of the first part, the mysterious expedition of Alexander to the fountain of life in the land of darkness.

Darwin and his generation were deeply imbued with the Butlerian tradition, and regarded the organic world as almost a miracle of adaptation, of the minute dovetailing of structure, function and environment.

The banks of the great rivers such as the Ganga (Ganges), the Yamuna (Jumna), the Narbada, the Krishna (Kistna), are studded with them, and the water of these rivers is supposed to be imbued with the essence of sanctity capable of cleansing the pious bather of all sin and moral taint.

His mind, strongly imbued with the theocratic ideal, saw more clearly than any other the enormous increase of influence which would accrue to a strictly celibate body of clergy, separated by their very ordination from the strongest earthly ties; and no statesman has ever pursued with greater energy and resolution a plan once formulated.

Rayer in 1850 and Davaine had observed the bacilli in the blood of animals dead of anthrax (splenic fever), and Pollender discovered them anew in 1855 In 1863, imbued with ideas derived from Pasteur's researches on fermentation, Davaine reinvestigated the matter, and put forth the opinion that the anthrax bacilli caused the splenic fever; this was proved to result from inoculation.

Becoming imbued, however, with the phalansterian ideas of Francois Fourier, he resigned his commission in 1831, in order to devote himself to advancing the doctrines of his master.

His mother was a lady of the Fadeyev family, by whom he was brought up as a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church and thoroughly imbued with nationalist feeling in the Russian sense of the term.

In the resolution which was adopted on the 2nd of March the chamber," imbued with the ideas which presided over the foundation of the Congo State and inspired the Act of Berlin,"expressed its confidence in the proposals which the commission of reforms was elaborating, and decided" to proceed without delay to the examination of the projected law of the 7th of August 1901, on the government of Belgium's colonial possessions."The report of the reforms commission was not made public, but as the fruit of its deliberations King Leopold signed on the 3rd of June 1906 a number of decrees embodying various While the commission was sitting, further evidence was forthcoming that the system complained of on the Congo remained unaltered, and that the" reforms "of June 1906 were illusory.

In 1829 he became the first Dane Professor of Law at Harvard University, and continued until his death to hold this position, meeting with remarkable success as a teacher and winning the affection of his students, whom he imbued with much of his own enthusiasm.

This way of solving, or passing over, the ultimate problems of thought has had many followers in cultured circles imbued with the new physical science of the day, and with disgust for the dogmatic creeds of contemporary orthodoxy; and its outspoken and even aggressive vindication by physicists of the eminence of Huxley had a potent influence upon the attitude taken towards metaphysics, and upon the form which subsequent Christian apologetics adopted.

His tutor was Philippe Le Bas, son of the well-known member of the Convention and follower of Robespierre, an able man, imbued with the ideas of the Revolution, while Vieillard, who instructed him in the rudiments, was a democratic imperialist also inspired with the ideal of nationalism.

Their doctors taught that the same grace of the Holy Spirit which imbued the living saint attaches after death to his relics, name, image and picture.

Being an Italian opera, the work was imbued with great passion, each act rising to a dramatic crescendo.

A film not imbued with ' nativity ' was criticized for its lack of cultural moorings and considered devoid of authenticity and conviction.

Moreover, the small numbers of workers in these areas were often Russians deeply imbued with colonial attitudes.

Workers solidarity in this type of context can take transnational forms but also be thoroughly imbued with nationalism.

How appropriate then, to study nationalism in a city so imbued with history and a sense of identity.

The Loft Apartments, which feature high ceilings, are also imbued with a delightful sense of history.

Its body is not imbued with sensitive reactive presence.

But the South African cricketer is not only inured to hardship, he is imbued with missionary zeal and will let nobody down.

It is a nature mysticism, or ethical vitalism imbued with spirituality.

Cursed with such immoderate fluency Lydgate could not sustain himself at the highest level of artistic excellence; and, though imbued with a sense of the essentials of poetry, and eager to prove himself in its various manifestations, he stinted himself of the self-discipline necessary to perfection of form.

On the contrary, Depretis and Melegari, both of whom were imbued with French Liberal doctrines, adopted towards the Republic an attitude so deferential as to arouse suspicion in Vienna and Berlin.

He was already deeply imbued with the theories of Quesnay and Gournay (see Physiocratic School), and set to work to apply them as far as possible in his province.

The formal elegance and conventional grace, alike of thought and of expression, so characteristic of Persian classical literature, pervade the works of the best Ottoman writers, and they are likewise imbued, though in a less degree, with that spirit of mysticism which runs through so much of the poetry of Iran.

But the perfect plastic art of Italy, the pure art of the Cinque Cento, the painting of Raphael, Da Vinci, Titian and Correggio, the sculpture of Donatello, Michelangelo and Sansovino, the architecture of Bramante, Omodeo and the Venetian Lombardi, however much imbued with the spirit of the classical revival, takes rank beside the poetry of Ariosto as a free intelligent product of the Renaissance.

Under Ammonius Plotinus became imbued with the eclectic spirit of the Alexandrian school.

Aging in bottle with the yeast lees imbued further richness.

He collected dewdrops from the plants and believed that the sun's rays, passing through the morning dew and touching the plant, imbued the dew with the plant's energy essences.

That's because grain seeds are imbued with a survival self-defense so it can survive being eaten by a bird, animal or even a human by being indigestible.

Founded by designer Sheila Vance, every sunglass Sama produces is imbued with luxury and exquisite, eye catching details.

In addition, many of these styles are imbued with a shimmer effect that turns classic black into something completely amazing.

Each swim look seems to be imbued with an easy, yet intense beauty that women everywhere will find is easy, and delightful, to replicate.

As such, Pisces is imbued with the depth of this house and all of its properties, and this can be seen in the sign's personality.

Science cannot explain away certain individuals who seem to be imbued with a sixth or psychic sense.

Design, coloring, style, every single piece of what tattoos are compromised of, each is imbued with my own unique personality traits.

To satisfy the vanity in everyone, Seiko proudly imbued this model with a sense of fashion by giving it a deep black watch face and luminous hands.

The rectangular black watch dial extends the dignified look imbued by the thin black strap and snuggles softly against wrists of all sizes.

While a negligee can be short in length or long, it's usually a slinky gown that's imbued with feminine details like lace, gems and fabrics that are soft to the touch.

Imbued with a great sense of tongue-in-cheek fun, Trashy offers plenty of intimate apparel that encourages a couple to be very intimate.

Perhaps an ancient sword was imbued with the ability to give the bearer overwhelming strength in battle.

Kirk's character is imbued with some of the characteristics of another sixties icon, British master spy James Bond.