afflation
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin afflatus, past participle of afflare (“to blow or breathe on”), from ad + flare (“to blow”).
Noun
afflation (plural afflations)
- A blowing or breathing on; inspiration.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “afflation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)