The word 'imbibed' is correct and usable in written English.
It means to take in or absorb, often referring to consuming a liquid. Example: She imbibed the teachings of her favorite philosopher, embracing them fully and incorporating them into her daily life.
The most obvious antecedent is Proust, whom Knausgaard has said he "virtually imbibed" when A la recherche du temps perdu was finally translated into Norwegian in the 1980s.
But in effect they changed little from what she imbibed at her home in Grantham, a provincial town in eastern England, where she was born in 1925.
European children, who imbibed typically Western doses of sugar, fat and meat, had fewer microbial species.In this section And the winner is… Game not over Flying rivets Secrets from the deep Hard to stomach ReprintsOn top of this overall drop in diversity, the researchers saw striking trends in the types of bacteria in the two groups.
Cook explained that until then it was "procured from the confectioners and fishmongers, which had been taken from stagnant ponds and noisome ditches; consequently those who partook of it imbibed the filthy impurities which it contained".
The moonshine being imbibed, the catalogue of African beers, African-branded cigarettes, the hookers even watching the screen not the customers.
This "great crappiness", he wrote, was essentially American, leading some of his countrymen to wonder whether he had stayed in Europe, read its books and imbibed its arrogance for too long.BAD would never end, he declared, as long as naive and impressionable people were ready to be flattered and deceived.
If, as he once said, he had become "infected with politics in Mr Truman's school", he had also deeply imbibed his frustrations.
Their milk is drunk unpasteurized and made into cheese, their meat cooked, and sometimes their urine is imbibed, as it is thought to have medicinal properties all of which has been going on for centuries.
He had imbibed his ideas from the anti-socialist works of Friedrich von Hayek, as well as from the middle-class suburban air of Shorewood, Wisconsin, where he had grown up.
TNS says that real ale is mostly imbibed by the same rich or aspirational classes who helped to popularise (non-native) wine.
The son of a Presbyterian minister, he imbibed the Protestant ethic and an acute awareness of inequity and injustice around him with his mother's milk.
