Definition of "impassion"

Baseball remains a formidable item, yet scarcely capable of balancing the scale against the sports—football, cricket, racing, pelota, bull-fighting—which, in Europe, impassion the common people, and draw most of their champions from the common people.

1912, Arnold Bennett, Your United States‎

Personal prudence even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.

1924, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Billy Budd‎, London: Constable & Co.