Definition of inspiration

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Inspiration (n.) The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration..

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Inspiration :: Inspiration (n.) A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated..
Interspiration :: Interspiration (n.) Spiritual inspiration at separate times, or at intervals..
Inanimation :: Inanimation (n.) Infusion of life or vigor; animation; inspiration.
Expiration :: Expiration (n.) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration..
Infidelity :: Infidelity (n.) Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine origin of Christianity..
Embreathement :: Embreathement (n.) The act of breathing in; inspiration.
Inspiration :: Inspiration (n.) The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration..
Illumination :: Illumination (v. t.) The special communication of knowledge to the mind by God; inspiration.
Infidel :: Infidel (a.) Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does not believe in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernatural origin of Christianity..
Insufflation :: Insufflation (n.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life.
Enthusiasm :: Enthusiasm (n.) Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to some divine impulse..
Sobbing :: Sobbing (n.) A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs..
Inspirational :: Inspirational (a.) Pertaining to inspiration.
Inspirtory :: Inspirtory (a.) Pertaining to, or aiding, inspiration; as, the inspiratory muscles..
Aspiration :: Aspiration (n.) The act of breathing; a breath; an inspiration.
Infusion :: Infusion (v. t.) That which is infused; suggestion; inspiration.
Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration..
Hiccough :: Hiccough (n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough..
Theopneustic :: Theopneustic (a.) Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.
Whoop :: Whoop (v. i.) To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough..
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