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Definition
to take in — especially to drink alcohol or be influenced by ideas
- "The highest wisdom and truth are like the purest liquid we may wish to imbibe," he said.Book Five — 1806-07 (8% in)
- Where, how, and when had this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced?Book Seven — 1810-11 (53% in)
There are no more uses of "imbibe" in War and Peace.
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