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afflatus|əˈfleɪtəs|
[a. L. afflātus a breathing upon, blast, f. afflā-re: see afflate v.]
†1. Breathing, hissing. [L. afflātus serpentis.] Obs.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Naturalists sometimes speak of the afflatus of serpents.
2. The miraculous communication of supernatural knowledge; hence also, the imparting of an over-mastering impulse, poetic or otherwise; inspiration.
1665J. Spencer Prophecies 54 Those writings being inspired by..a more gentle and easie afflatus. 1782Priestley Nat. & Rev. Relig. I. 245 Orpheus said antient poets wrote by a divine afflatus. 1865Livingstone Zambesi xxiv. 497 A migratory afflatus seems to have come over the Ajawa tribes. 1873Goulburn Pers. Relig. iv. vii. 310 When writing under the Afflatus of the Holy Ghost. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 248 Aristophanes must have eclipsed them..by the exhibition of some diviner faculty, some higher spiritual afflatus.
3. Med. A species of erysipelas, so called from the suddenness of its attack. Mayne Exp. Lex. |