Both Uses
imbibe
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
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- In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?†
p. 47.5 *imbibed = taken in; or took in
- Suddenly, as I gazed on him, an idea seized me that this little creature was unprejudiced and had lived too short a time to have imbibed a horror of deformity.†
p. 144.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(imbibe) to take in -- especially to drink alcohol or be influenced by ideas
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)