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anhelation arch.|ænhɪˈleɪʃən|
[a. Fr. anhélation, ad. L. anhēlātiōn-em, f. anhēlā-re: see next.]
1. A breathing with difficulty, panting; shortness of breath, asthma.
1623Cockeram, Anhelation, the Tissique. 1655Culpeper Riverius vii. i. 148 In a Dispnœa, the breath is thick, without noise or anhelation. 1794Paley Nat. Theol. x. §5 (1819) 159 In a city-feast, for example, what deglutition, what anhelation! 1839Hooper Med. Dict. 547 A permanent difficulty of breathing or anhelation.
2. fig. Panting, aspiration (after an object of desire).
a1631Donne Serm. vii. 73 Our Anhelation and panting after the Joyes of the Kingdom of Heaven. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. i. 903 When his exhaling Soul to Heav'n aspires, In sacred Anhelations, and inflam'd Desires. |