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Indwell

Indwell \In"dwell`\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Indwelt; p. pr. & vb. n. Indwelling.] To dwell in; to abide within; to remain in possession.

The Holy Ghost became a dove, not as a symbol, but as a constantly indwelt form.
--Milman.

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indwell

vb. To exist within, especially as a spirit or driving force.

WordNet
indwell
  1. v. to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle

  2. [also: indwelt]

Usage examples of "indwell".

Buck had little doubt that the indwelt Antichrist would not hesitate to use his every resource to quash the rebellion scheduled to rise against him the next day.

Both these depend upon the existence of that principle of vegetal life and generation by which the body becomes an organism aware of pleasure and pain: this principle it was that made the body a thing of bile and bitterness, and thus it leads the indwelling soul-phase to corresponding states--churlish and angry under stress of environment--so that being wronged itself, it tries, as we may put it, to return the wrong upon its surroundings, and bring them to the same condition.

Jesuit, suffered at age twenty-five a sudden and dire spiritual decline in which his basic faith in the innate indwelling goodness of men like spontaneously combusted and disappeared and for no apparent or dramatic reason.

As this faintly lurid light faded out and left the countenance in its normal state it became more heavy and earthy in its expression than Van Berg would have deemed possible, and it ever remained a mystery to him how features so delicate, beautiful, and essentially feminine could combine to show so clearly that the indwelling nature was largely alloyed with clay.

He disliked having to leave the indwelling catheter for urine disposal, but there was no way out of that for now.

Whereas in the case of an organism the Idea actively indwells the object, its relationship to a man-made thing (and similarly to nature's mineral entities) is a purely external one.

The Spirit of God indwells us, but this indwelling doesn't make us gods.

Unfortunately, that made it hard for him to separate his dread over Annie from his wariness over the indwelt Carpathia.

And the Bible says the resurrected Antichrist is literally indwelt by Satan himself.

You would expose Antichrist to the world as the evil man indwelt by Satan and rally the devout believers to repel the mark of the beast!

Maybe he'll sound like himself and have the same mannerisms, but he's supposed to be indwelt, and indwelt means indwelt.

He tried to assure them that his best interpretation of the original Greek led him to believe that the man would actually die and then be indwelt by Satan himself upon coming back to life.

Ben-Judah taught was now indwelt, Satan incarnate, was almost more than he could take.

Ben-Judah and Rosenzweig had said he was now indwelt by Satan himself, a spirit-being using a human body—albeit a dead one.

He was known not to have eaten or slept in three and a half years, persuading loyalists he was the true and living God, and confirming to his enemies that he was indeed Antichrist, indwelt by Satan.