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▪ I. spiration1|spaɪˈreɪʃən|
Also 6 spiracyon, -atione.
[ad. L. spīrātiōn-, spīrātio, n. of action f. spīrāre to breathe. So OF. (e)spiracion, F. spiration, It. spirazione, Sp. espiracion.]
1. Theol.
†a. The action of breathing as a creative or life-giving function of the Deity. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 217 b, Job sayth, the spiryt of god hath made me & the spiracyon of the almyghty hath gyuen me lyfe. 1649J. Ellistone tr. Behmen's Epist. 84 Man, who with his soule..is couched in the eternall Spiration (or generation) of the Divine power. a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) II. 490 To other substances of this kind it seemeth also assigned,..because God did by a kind of spiration produce them. 1708Dodwell Nat. Mort. Hum. Souls 23 As the πνοὴ, or Flatus, is by the Fathers supposed to continue so long, and no longer, than the Act of Spiration, or Flation, lasts. 1765Law tr. Behmen's Myst. Magn. i. vii, This Egress from the Will in the Speaking or Spiration is the Spirit of the Deity.
b. The special action to which the origin of the Holy Ghost is assigned.
1602J. Davies (Heref.) Mirum in Modum (Grosart) 17/1 Fatherhood, breathing, or Spiration, Son-hood, Procession. 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v., The Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father, and the Son,..produced through the will by an ineffable way, and this Divines term Spiration. 1699Burnet 39 Art. v. 69 The Word Procession, or as the School⁓men term it, Spiration, is only made use of in order to the naming this relation of the Spirit to the Father and Son. 1829J. Donovan tr. Catech. Counc. Trent (1855) 83 As on the production of the third Person is imposed no proper name, but it is called spiration and procession. 1898W. Adamson J. Morison 42 The doctrines of the eternal generation of the Son and the eternal spiration of the Spirit.
†2. The action of breathing or drawing breath in man and animals. Obs.
1568G. Skeyne The Pest (1860) 28 Cohibite also spiratione, to eschew occasioun of new corruptioun. 1594R. Ashley tr. Loys de Roy 57 b, The variable aire, sustayning with spiration and respiration all liuing creatures. 1615Crooke Body of Man 421 The spiration or breathing of colde is verie necessary for the preseruation of naturall heate. 1673–4Grew Anat. Pl., Anat. Trunks (1684) 117 Even as in Animals, there are divers Kinds of Organs for Spiration.
†3. An inspiration; a spiritual influence. Obs.
1628Jackson Creed vi. xi. Wks. 1844 V. 131 Such as..boisterously counterblast the sweet and placid spirations of celestial influence. 1686A. Horneck Crucif. Jesus xxvi. 846 Some other spirations, and breathings of the soul after God.
▪ II. † spiˈration2 Obs. rare.
[f. L. spīra spire n.3]
Spiral conformation.
1672–3Grew Anat. Pl., Anat. Roots (1684) 73 The Spiration of the Fibres of these Vessels, may more easily be observed in the Trunk, than in the Root. |