Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Eccles., to exorcise, drive away, or remove by blowing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Eccles.) To exorcise or renounce by blowing.
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- verb obsolete To
exorcise orrenounce byblowing .
Etymologies
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Latin exsufflare to blow at or upon; ex out + sufflare. See sufflate.
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reesetee commented on the word exsufflate
To blow out, blow away.
February 12, 2008
mollusque commented on the word exsufflate
Still used in medical contexts: to exsufflate the lungs, the bowel, the abdomen. See Apparatus and methods for controlling pressurization of a body cavity.
February 12, 2008
jmjarmstrong commented on the word exsufflate
JM is blown away by exsufflate events.
May 9, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word exsufflate
Mechanical insufflation-exsufflation has nothing to do with rites of baptism or exorcism.
May 9, 2011
nerdyperv commented on the word exsufflate
The exorcising such a demon is practised by white men as a religious rite, even including the act of exsufflating it, or blowing it away, which our Mojave Indian illustrated by the gesture of blowing away an imaginary spirit, and which is well known as forming a part of the religious rites of both the Greek and Roman Church.
E.B. Tylor, Science, IV. 547.
May 21, 2011