impartation
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All Being, from the lowest creature up to the loftiest created spirit, exists by one law, the continual impartation to it of life from the fountain of life, according to its capacities.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren
Being human, He must be indebted to the Spirit for all impartation to His human nature of what is Divine.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
It is a peculiar example of the unconscious impartation of objective existence to mental ideas.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
That stone has vital power, and if we build on it we receive, by wonderful impartation, a kindred derived life, and become 'living stones.'
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster