Both Uses of
imbibe
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- A field-man is a personality afield; a field-woman is a portion of the field; she had somehow lost her own margin, imbibed the essence of her surrounding, and assimilated herself with it.†
Chpt 2 *imbibed = taken in; or took in
- He himself knew that, in reality, the confused beliefs which she held, apparently imbibed in childhood, were, if anything, Tractarian as to phraseology, and Pantheistic as to essence.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
to take in -- especially to drink alcohol or be influenced by ideas