Her mother,' says Madame de Caylus, 'was anxious to imbue her with principles of sound piety.
The destruction of idolatry was of such vital importance in the regeneration of the world that it sufficed as a dogma to imbue a great branch of the Semitic family with a strong life for several centuries.
To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.
This saponaceous compound is let off as wanted by a stopcock into the trough of a padding machine, in order to imbue every fibre of the cloth in its passage.
Imbue lads with the belief that their reformation is an overnight joke, and they will make night hideous, as well as most of days--for good measure.
Such contracted view covers only so much of primary compulsion as may be necessary to imbue refractory criminals with at least fearsome respect for correctional measures.
Looking at the matter in the large, what is it if not morally criminal to babble in one breath about "disarmament," and in the next breath imbue lads and lassies with the ideals of the shouldering hog, and the instincts of the boss bull?
Moreover, mothers flock to bestial exhibitions that imbue lads with values utterly false, mark them more brutally than bronchos are branded in the corral, and speed them to useless lives, commonly garnished with the unspeakable.
Just because general assembly for free play affords abnormal units the best chance to imbue their betters with the bad, is just why the latter should be most carefully guarded by State agents on recreative fields.
They were contented to generalize the doctrines of Scripture, and though they venerated its awful truths in the aggregate, they rather took them upon trust than labored to understand them, or to imbue their minds with the spirit of them.
This temper seems to imbue his whole soul, pervade his whole conduct, and influence his whole conversation.
I would prepare for thee a holy niche In some new temple, and with draperies rich, And flowers and lamps and incense of the best, I would with something of mine own unrest Imbue thy blood and prompt thee to be just.
To strip off it suffices to imbue the paper with alcohol in order to dissolve the shellac.
The bichromate solution should be allowed to imbue the paper for about one minute, and having brushed it once more, the paper is pinned up to dry in the dark room.
It is essential, on the other hand, to imbue the pupil with a feeling of respect for good-will.
Please notify all the officers of war and the entire public of your district of the contents of this telegram, and imbue them with a full earnestness of the cause.
His duties were increased a hundred-fold as the campaign progressed, and when the first reverses came he alone of the Free Staters was able to imbue the men with new zeal.
Luceval, in reverting to his cousin Michel's incurable indolence, had never said anything that would serve to excuse it or imbue it with any romantic charm.
And now, Valentine, confess that there is nothing like well-directed indolence to imbue persons with energy, courage, and virtue.
They would also perhaps help to imbue this fretful and restless Europe with some of their Asiatic calmness and contemplation, and--what is perhaps most needful of all--their Asiatic stability.
A single immortal man on earth would imbue everyone around him with such a disgust for him that a general epidemic of murder and suicide would be brought about.
Perhaps the interview would have been decisive had Rantzau had an honest intention of moving Struensee, and been a man who could imbue him with any degree of confidence.
Defn: To subject to the action of, or imbue with, a mordant; as, to mordant goods for dyeing.
Defn: To cause to conform to Socinianism; to regulate by, or imbue with, the principles of Socinianism.
Defn: To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize.
Calico Printing) Defn: To imbueuniformly with a mordant; as, to pad cloth.
To imbue the mind of; to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge.
Defn: To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.
Defn: To imbue with sectarian feelings; to subject to the control of a sect.
To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.
For myself, I would not imbue my hands with blood.
Mr. Verrall had introduced George to the dangerous gaming-tables; had contrived to imbue him with a liking for the insidious vice.
It would take a great deal to imbue me with faith in the supernatural.
They had never been able to imbue her with the superstition pertaining to the Godolphins.
I have never been able to imbue my poor boy with that part of his art.
In their minor undertaking their purpose should be to imbue with the spirit of power and strength such movements as in their restricted scope are endeavoring to achieve what is near and dear to the heart of every true Bahá’í.
What Whitman did that is unprecedented was, to take up the whole country into himself, fuse it, imbue it with soul and poetic emotion, and recast it as a sort of colossal Walt Whitman.
We all imbue words more or less with meanings of our own; but, from the point of view I am now essaying, literature is the largest fact, and embraces all inspired utterances.