impassion
make passionate, instill passion in
transitive
Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports—football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting—which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people.
Where it comes from
From Italian impassionare. By surface analysis, im- + passion.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry impassion (CC BY-SA 4.0).