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To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture.

To imbue with the principles of abolitionism. [R.] Bartlett.

To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.

One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to egoist.

them well, and do nothing for them Hooker. What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. Byron. What boots to us your victories Southey.

To imbue with or adapt to Christian principles. Christianized philosophers. I. Taylor.

One imbued with a denominational spirit. The Century.

its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.

Pertaining to egoism; imbued with egoism or excessive thoughts of self; self-loving. Ill-natured feeling, or egoistic pleasure in making men miserable. G. Eliot.

To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume. With fresh dews embalmed the earth. Milton.

To indue or imbue (a body) with soul. [R.] Emerson.

To taint or impregnate with bitterness, malice, or hatred; to imbue as with venom; to imbitter. The envenomed tongue of calumny. Smollett. On the question of slavery opinion has of late years been peculiarly envenomed. Sir G. C. Lewis.

To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastes of the French; to Gallicize. Burke.

To saturate; to imbue. [Obs.] "Earth, imbibed with . . . acid." Sir I. Newton.

nfuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.

incombustible gas. Incombustible cloth, a tissue of amianthus or asbestus; also, a fabric imbued with an incombustible substance. -- In`com*bus"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*bus"ti*bly, adv.

To instruct in the rudiments or principles of learning, or of a branch of learning; to imbue with learning; to instruct in, or imbue with, principles or doctrines; to teach; -- often followed by in. A master that . . . took much delight in indoctrinating his young, unexperienced favorite. Clarendon.…

To give form or share to; to give vital ororganizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion. "The informing Word." Coleridge. Let others better mold the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass. Dryden. Breath informs this fleeting frame.…

he natural texture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply. Our fields ingrained with blood. Daniel. Cruelty and jealousy seem to be ingrained in a man who has these vices at all. Helps.