insoul

English

Etymology

From in- +‎ soul.

Verb

insoul (third-person singular simple present insouls, present participle insouling, simple past and past participle insouled)

1. (obsolete) To set a soul in; reflexively, to fix one's strongest affections on.
   • a. 1667, Jeremy Taylor, A Sermon Preached to the University of Dublin:

     the soul must be informed, ' insouled, ' or animated

   • 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:

     [He] could not but insoul himself in her.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “insoul”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• unsoil, unoils