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Imbibe

verb

(past & past part. imbibed; pres. part. imbibing)

Take in, also metaphorically. Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up. "She drew strength from the minister's words"

Take (gas, light or heat) into a solution. Synonym: assimilate.

Take in liquids. Synonym: drink. "The children like to drink soda"

Receive into the mind and retain.

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"Imbibe" Quotes from Famous Books

... here; and what strange deities are numbered among them! It needs a special effort of the intellect to understand them. But the simple duties of the domestic hearth!—they are too prosaic for you Alexandrians, who imbibe philosophy with your mothers' milk. What marvel, if I looked for them in vain? True, they would find little satisfaction—our household gods I mean—here, where the rigid demands of Hymen are mute before the ardent ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... only to discharge well their own duties in the domestic circle, but to train up their daughters for a later day to make happy and comfortable firesides for their families, should watch well, and guard well, the notions which they imbibe and with which they grow up. There will be many persons ready to fill their young heads with false and vain fancies, and there is so much always afloat in society opposed to duty and common sense, that if mothers do not watch well, their children may contract ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... condition, exerted himself so far as to try to learn chess from Aldonza, who seemed to be a proficient in the game, and even defeated the good- natured burly parson who came every evening to the Antelope, to imbibe slowly a tankard of ale, and hear any ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte M. Yonge

... There were two niggers in the establishment, named Steve and Dick, who accompanied the gentlemen in their angling excursions, amusing them with their stolidity and the enormous quantity of gin they could imbibe without being more than ...

— The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims - Volume I (of II) • Andrew Steinmetz

... became maudlin in their—not cups, but jug; but Davy had the sense to imbibe more cautiously, a fact which seemed to ...

— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon

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