Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of insufflating.
- noun Ecclesiastical A ritual act of breathing on baptismal water or on the one being baptized.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The process of decorating pottery or porcelain by blowing color on the surface of the ware through a hollow tube over the end of which gauze has been stretched. See
soufflé decoration , under soufflé. - noun The act of blowing or breathing on or into.
- noun Eccles., the act or ceremony of breathing upon (a person or thing), symbolizing the influence of the Holy Ghost and the expulsion of an evil spirit.
- noun In medicine, the act of blowing air into the mouth of a new-born child to induce respiration, or of blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into some opening of the body.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life.
- noun (Med.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of
breathing orblowing into or on. - noun The result of breathing or blowing into or on.
- noun The
ritual breathing onto thewater used forbaptism
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an act of blowing or breathing on or into something
- noun (medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity)
Etymologies
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Examples
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A moment later there was a soft, almost inaudible insufflation; the door stirred and moved outward perhaps six inches, then stopped.
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And still Ehomba continued his unnatural insufflation, until the last of the blackness had vanished, drawn deep down within himself.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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Where the Gloss is, If those plagues come by the insufflation of the devil, which do not defile the man.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Where the Gloss again hath it; "Those plagues which are inflicted by the insufflation of the devil, not by the hands of men."
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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A moment later there was a soft, almost inaudible insufflation; the door stirred and moved outward perhaps six inches, then stopped.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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The first applications that he attempted related to the use of electricity in surgery, a wonderfully fecund branch, but one whose importance was scarcely suspected, notwithstanding the results already obtained through the application of the insufflation pile to galvano-cautery.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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In addition to this capital defect, it is regrettable that it is necessary to shake the flask that contains the solution after every insufflation of air, and also that the play of the valves soon becomes imperfect.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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During the baptismal service the Satanic hosts, as originators of sin, vice, and maladies, were expelled by insufflation of the officiating clergyman, the sign of the cross, and the invocation of the Triune Deity.
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten
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The pipes are of three kinds: (1) a simple valved insufflation tube or "blow-pipe," by means of which the performer fills the bag reservoir; (2) the "chaunter"
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The insufflation tube appears to have been left out, and there are no drones to be seen.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
Gammerstang commented on the word insufflation
(noun) - (1) The act of blowing a gas or vapour into a cavity of the body, as when tobacco smoke is injected into the rectum. --Richard Hoblyn's Medical Dictionary, 1859 (2) From Latin sufflatus, blown up, puffed out. --Rev. James Stormonth's Dictionary of the English Language, 1884
January 27, 2018