Definition of "ensoul" []

• To endow with a soul. (verb-transitive)
• To place, receive, or cherish in the soul. (verb-transitive)

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• "But those who do and who are also evolutionists (such as CS Lewis), typically argue that God chose to "ensoul" the creatures we now describe as human beings at some point in their evolutionary history."
• "Thus it comes about that this kosmos, lit with many lights, gleaming in its souls, receives still further graces, gifts from here and from there, from the gods of the Supreme, and from those other Intellectual-Principles whose nature it is to ensoul."
• "-- Outwardly there was pomp, stately manners, pageantry, high magnificence; inwardly, a burning-up of the national imagination to ensoul it."