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Definition of Imbibes
1. imbibe [v] - See also: imbibe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbibes
Literary usage of Imbibes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"A hard compact slate is best for roofing ; that which is porous imbibes water,
the freezing of which splits it in winter, whilst it affords also a soil for ..."
2. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"175 imbibes я, life, and scours and stinks along Z>. ii. iuo Demand я, bodies,
and in Calf's array D. iii. 29 Old in я. state; another, yet the same D. iii. ..."
3. Art and Environment by Lisle March Phillipps (1914)
"CHAPTER IX SCULPTURE AND THE MODERN MIND Breakdown of classic intellectualism :
West and East in contact : The West imbibes the Eastern thought of spiritual ..."
4. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides by James Boswell, John Wilson Croker (1831)
"... and toil, Its root strikes deep, and owns the fost'ring soil; imbibes our sun
through all its swelling veins, And grows a native of Britannia's plains. ..."
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