Imbue (verb)
im-bew
Inspire or permeate with (a feeling or quality)
Late Middle English (in the sense ‘saturate’): from French imbu ‘moistened’, from Latin imbutus, past participle of imbuere ‘moisten’.
Example sentences
“As she looked out onto the ocean she was imbued with a sense of serenity”
Lurdan (noun) lur-dn A lazy, stupid, loutish fellow. 1250–1300; Middle English, Middle French lourdin dullard, equivalent to lourd heavy, dull (more…)
