ensoul, insoul, v.
(ɛn-, ɪnˈsəʊl)
[f. en-1 + soul.]
1. trans. To put or take into the soul; to unite with the soul: † refl. to be absorbed into, become part of, the (Divine soul).
| 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 201 They laboured..to insoule themselves in God. 1652 Bp. Patrick Fun. Serm. in J. Smith's Sel. Disc. 544 He had incorporated, shall I say, or insouled all principles of justice and righteousness. 1799 Southey Eng. Eclog., etc. Poet. Wks. III. 175 Only in some few faithful memories Insoul'd. 1881 Palgrave Visions Eng. 333 Insoul us to the nobler part, The chivalrous loyalty of thy life and word! |
2. To infuse a soul into; to fill with ‘soul’. Also, to dwell in, animate, as a soul.
| 1652 W. Dennie Glance at Theoph. in Benlowes Theoph., The hallowed air Seems all ensould with sweet Perfume. 1832 Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 653 He ensouls all dead insensate things. 1841–4 Emerson Ess. Love Wks. (Bohn) I. 78 The soul is wholly embodied, and the body is wholly ensouled. 1879 G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie I. xii. 177 The one visible symbol informed and insouled of the eternal. 1888 C. Gore Ministry Chr. Ch. 24 note, An organism ensouled by the indwelling word. |
Hence enˈsouled ppl. a.; enˈsouling ppl. a.
| 18.. Nat. Encycl. I. 901 Christ was ἔνσαρκος, ‘incarnate’, but not ἔµψυχος ‘insouled’. 1865 Draper Intell. Devel. Europe iv. 71 He [Thales] taught that the world is an insouled thing. 1826 Blackw. Mag. XX. 490 Infinitely penetrating—ensouling. 1868 Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 459 The Word itself became the ensouling principle. |