aspire

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ASPI'RE, verb intransitive [Latin aspiro, to breathe. See Aspirate.] 1. To desire with eagerness; to pant after an object, great, noble or spiritual; followed by to or after; as to aspire to a crown or after immortality. 2. To aim at something elevated; to rise or tower with desire. Aspiring to be Gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to be angels, men rebel.
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