exsufflation

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English

Etymology

Compare Latin exsufflātiō, from exsufflō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɛksəˈfleɪʃən/

Noun

exsufflation (plural exsufflations)

  1. (obsolete) A blast from beneath.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:
      The next is when it will fly upwards over the helm by a kind of exsufflation without vapouring
  2. (obsolete) A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath.
    • 1655, Jeremy Taylor, Unum Necessarium:
      the Ceremony of Exsufflation, for ejecting of the Devil
  3. (biology, obsolete) A strongly forced expiration of air from the lungs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exsufflation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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