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Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired steeple. Mason.

nimated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers.

Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

That manner of expression by which the inspired writers attribute human parts and passions to God.

To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to. [Obs.] That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak.

The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence. There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear. Keble. To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. The solitude of t…

To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.[R.]

ose; -- usually in a bad sense. A combination of the most powerful men in Rome who had conspired my ruin. Melmoth.

, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together. They conspired against [Joseph] to slay him. Gen. xxxvii. 18. You have conspired against our royal person, Joined with an enemy proclaimed. Shak.

One of those who conspired for constitutional government against the Emperor Nicholas on his accession to the throne at the death of Alexander I., in December, 1825; -- called also Dekabrist.

. still thou art a bitter draught. Sterne. Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired. Goldsmith.

re of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament.

Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm. [Obs.]

Of godlike energy; inspired. -- En`the*as"tic*al*ly, adv.

Divinely inspired. [Obs.] Drummond.

One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person. En…

citement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm. Her wit began to be with a divine fury inspired. Sir P. Sidney.

s; heroic; magnanimous; as, a gallant youth; a gallant officer. That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak. The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave. Waller.

n of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered Milton.