Word Meanings - INSTINCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Instinct; incitement; inspiration. Sir T. Elyot.

INSTINCTION
Instinct; incitement; inspiration. Sir T. Elyot.
INSTINCT
Urged or sas, birds instinct with life. The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton. A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham. (more info) instigate, incite;
INSTINCTIVITY
The quality of being instinctive, or prompted by instinct. Coleridge.
INSPIRATIONIST
One who holds to inspiration.
INCITEMENT
1. The act of inciting. 2. That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke. From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope. Syn. -- Motive; incentive; spur; stimulus; impulse;
INSPIRATION
A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth;
INSTINCTIVE
Of or pertaining to instinct; derived from, or prompted by, instinct; of the nature of instinct; determined by natural impulse or propensity; acting or produced without reasoning, deliberation, instruction, or experience; spontaneous. "Instinctive
INSTINCTIVELY
In an instinctive manner; by force of instinct; by natural impulse.
INSPIRATIONAL
Pertaining to inspiration.