Meaning of INSPIRATION
| Pronunciation: | | `inspu'reyshun
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- [n] the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing
- [n] arousing to a particular emotion or action
- [n] a product of your creative thinking and work; "he had little respect for the inspirations of other artists"; "after years of work his brainchild was a tangible reality"
- [n] (theology) a special influence of a divinity on the minds of human beings; "they believe that the books of Scripture were written under divine guidance"
- [n] a sudden intuition as part of solving a problem
- [n] arousal of the mind to special unusual activity or creativity
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| | Synonyms: | | aspiration, brainchild, breathing in, divine guidance, inhalation, stirring |
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| | See Also: | | afflatus, arousal, breath, breathing, cognitive factor, drag, external respiration, gasp, germ, idea, intuition, mother, pant, problem solving, product, production, puff, pull, respiration, rousing, seed, source, thought, ventilation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`spi*ra"tion\, n. [F. inspiration, L. inspiratio.
See {Inspire}.]
1. 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.
2. The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating
influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of
such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the
inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.
Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their
death have good inspirations. --Shak.
3. (Theol.) 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.
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. --2
Tim. iii. 16.
The age which we now live in is not an age of
inspiration and impulses. --Sharp.
{Plenary inspiration} (Theol.), that kind of inspiration
which excludes all defect in the utterance of the inspired
message.
{Verbal inspiration} (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which
extends to the very words and forms of expression of the
divine message.
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| | Definition: | | inhaling; taking in oxygen |
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| Easton Bible Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | that extraordinary or supernatural divine influence vouchsafed to those who wrote the Holy Scriptures, rendering their writings infallible. "All scripture is given by inspiration of God" (R.V., "Every scripture inspired of God"), 2 Tim. 3:16. This is true of all the "sacred writings," not in the sense of their being works of genius or of supernatural insight, but as "theopneustic," i.e., "breathed into by God" in such a sense that the writers were supernaturally guided to express exactly what God intended them to express as a revelation of his mind and will. The testimony of the sacred writers themselves abundantly demonstrates this truth; and if they are infallible as teachers of doctrine, then the doctrine of plenary inspiration must be accepted. There are no errors in the Bible as it came from God, none have been proved to exist. Difficulties and phenomena we cannot explain are not errors. All these books of the Old and New Testaments are inspired. We do not say that they contain, but that they are, the Word of God. The gift of inspiration rendered the writers the organs of God, for the infallible communication of his mind and will, in the very manner and words in which it was originally given. As to the nature of inspiration we have no information. This only we know, it rendered the writers infallible. They were all equally inspired, and are all equally infallible. The inspiration of the sacred writers did not change their characters. They retained all their individual peculiarities as thinkers or writers. (See BIBLE; WORD OF GOD.) |
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| | Related Terms: | | a priori knowledge, afflatus, air current, ambition, animating spirit, animation, animus, anticipation, apocalypse, Apollo, Apollo Musagetes, Aqua-Lung, ardor, arousal, artificial respiration, artistic imagination, aspiration, assurance, asthmatic wheeze, automatic response, awakening, basis, blind impulse, Bragi, brain wave, brainchild, brainstorm, brainwave, breath, breath of air, breathing, bright idea, bright thought, brilliant idea, broken wind, buddhi, calling, Calliope, Castilian Spring, cause, clairvoyance, Clio, conception, consideration, cough, creative imagination, creative power, creative thought, creativity, crosscurrent, current, current of air, daemon, daimonion, demon, direct apprehension, direct communication, divine afflatus, divine inspiration, divine revelation, downdraft, draft, drive, ebullience, education, elan, emboldening, encouragement, energy, enlightenment, enlivenment, enthusiasm, epiphany, Erato, esemplastic imagination, esemplastic power, Euterpe, exhalation, exhilaration, expiration, exsufflation, fall wind, fancy, feeling, fire, fire of genius, firing, flash, fleeting impulse, flow of air, following wind, gasp, Geist, genius, goal, good idea, ground, guide, guiding light, guiding star, gulp, gusto, gut response, hack, head wind, heartening, Helicon, hiccup, Hippocrene, ideal, illumination, immediate cognition, impulse, incentive, incitement, indraft, infection, inflow, influence, infusion, inhalation, inhalator, inhalement, inrush, insight, inspiriting, inspiritment, instinct, insufflation, intention, intuition, intuitionism, intuitive reason, intuitiveness, intuitivism, involuntary impulse, iron lung, jetstream, katabatic wind, knowledge without thought, lodestar, mainspring, matter, Melpomene, monsoon, motive, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, movement of air, moving spirit, Muse, mystical experience, mysticism, mythicization, mythification, mythopoeia, natural impulse, notion, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, Parnassus, passion, Pierian Spring, Pierides, poesy, poetic genius, poetic imagination, Polyhymnia, precognition, principle, prophecy, provocation, puff, quick hunch, reason, reassurance, reflex, respiration, revelation, sake, satori, score, scuba, second sight, second-sightedness, shaping imagination, sigh, sixth sense, sneeze, sniff, sniffle, snore, snoring, snuff, snuffle, soul, source, sparkle, spirit, spring, spur, sternutation, stertor, stimulation, stimulus, stream, stream of air, subconscious knowledge, subconscious perception, suck, sucking, suction, sudden thought, suggestion, suspiration, tail wind, talent, Terpsichore, Thalia, the Muses, theophania, theophany, theopneustia, theopneusty, ulterior motive, undercurrent, unmediated perception, updraft, urge, vigor, vision, vocation, wheeze, wind, zeal |
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