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† suˈfflation Obs.
[ad. L. sufflātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. sufflāre (see prec.).]
The action of blowing (up); inflation (lit. and fig.); distension with wind; inspiration (by the ‘breath’ of the Holy Ghost); expiration.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 121/2 When anye mans Bellye with sufflationes is straygned. 1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xi. §2. 102 As the wandring Starres in their motions, yea as the Windes in their sufflations. 1660R. Burney κέρδ. Δῶρον (1661) 65 There is no other Canker to Nobility and Gentry but sufflation. 1663Waterhouse Fortescue's De Laud. Legum Angliæ 396 If any of them act above the sphear of vulgarity, 'tis by the sufflation of a miracle. 1778[W. H. Marshall] Min. Agric. 27 Feb. 1776 It seems fully proved, that salt and water will cure a sufflation. 1797Geddes Transl. Bible II. Pref. p. v, The admission..of a perpetual and unerring sufflation..destroys their [viz. the Scriptures] credibility throughout. 1800T. Green Diary Lover of Lit. (1810) 233 Discanting largely on the consequences of such a sufflation [viz. the explosion of gunpowder by the contending armies on the continent]. 1817Coleridge Lay Serm. ii. (1852) 145 With strange sufflations he exorcised me. |