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inblow

verb

  1. To blow into; puff up; inflate.

    transitive

  2. To breathe into; inspire.

    transitive

    Then the spiritual and sensory faculties follow the creation of this partial spirit that is inblown by way of tawḥīd, for He says, I blew [15:29]. As for the spirit of Jesus, it is inblown through bringing together and manyness, for within him are the faculties ...

  3. To blow in.

    intransitive

Where it comes from

From Middle English inblowen, from Old English inblāwan (“to inspire, breathe upon, inflate, puff up”), equivalent to in- + blow. Doublet of inflate.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry inblow (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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