imbue and imbibe
these words were stuck in my head the other day. no idea where they came from. but they were both there. imbue, meaning 'to drink in, to absorb into the mind, to saturate,' and imbibe, meaning 'to receive into the mind and to retain.'
my mother says that this clearly means that i am supposed to imbue and imbibe something. she didn't tell me what, though.
my mother says that this clearly means that i am supposed to imbue and imbibe something. she didn't tell me what, though.
posted by melilotnfosco | 3:57 PM
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may i imbue and imbibe with you?
why certainly. i'm reading 'the unusual suspect' again, if you want to imbue and imbibe that with me.
ok, but since my frivolous reading didn't turn out so well, i decided to read something light but with a little more substance next. so after the civil war book, i'm going to read one of francine rivers' Biblical novels (the jonathan one).
plus also, i'm bringing a grisham book on vacation.
why do those words make me think of alcohol?
I've always thought of imbibe as related to alcohol - I think it's used as a way to make getting drunk sound more upper class. But imbue has always has magical connotations for me; as in: "the wand was imbued with great power". And I've always thought of it as a verb that requires both a direct and indirect object - you imbue something with something.
But I like the definition you found for it - it's an interesting way to think of the word.
i just read the jonathan one!
and i'm not waiting for you to read my book with me
i have the jonathan book and the ezra one waiting for me at the library.
oops - i meant amos. there isn't an ezra one.
but the amos one is really good, especially since i know so little about him.
and it mentioned him being imbued by God.
i've only read the jonathan one from the men series, and only the tamar one from the women one, and i must say i much preferred the tamar one. the jonathan one was good, just, i don't know, too much or too little something.
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