资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Inspiration \In`spi*ra"tion\, n. [F. inspiration, L. inspiratio.
   See {Inspire}.]
   1. The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif.
      (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs,
      accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls
      and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of
      expiration.

   2. The act or power of exercising an elevating or stimulating
      influence upon the intellect or emotions; the result of
      such influence which quickens or stimulates; as, the
      inspiration of occasion, of art, etc.

            Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their
            death have good inspirations.         --Shak.

   3. (Theol.) 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; also, the truth communicated.

            All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. --2
                                                  Tim. iii. 16.

            The age which we now live in is not an age of
            inspiration and impulses.             --Sharp.

   {Plenary inspiration} (Theol.), that kind of inspiration
      which excludes all defect in the utterance of the inspired
      message.

   {Verbal inspiration} (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which
      extends to the very words and forms of expression of the
      divine message.

Plenary \Ple"na*ry\, a. [LL. plenarius, fr. L. plenus full. See
   {Plenty}.]
   Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license;
   plenary authority.

         A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full. --I.
                                                  Watts.

   {Plenary indulgence} (R. C. Ch.), an entire remission of
      temporal punishment due to, or canonical penance for, all
      sins.

   {Plenary inspiration}. (Theol.) See under {Inspiration}.