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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Eccles., to exorcise, drive away, or remove by blowing. In the early church, a catechumen before baptism was commanded to turn to the west and thrice exsufflate Satan.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. (Eccles.) To exorcise or renounce by blowing.
Etymologies
- Latin exsufflare to blow at or upon; ex out + sufflare. See sufflate. (Wiktionary)
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nerdyperv 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
hernesheir Mechanical insufflation-exsufflation has nothing to do with rites of baptism or exorcism. May 9, 2011
jmjarmstrong JM is blown away by exsufflate events. May 9, 2011
mollusque Still used in medical contexts: to exsufflate the lungs, the bowel, the abdomen. See Apparatus and methods for controlling pressurization of a body cavity. Feb 12, 2008
reesetee To blow out, blow away. Feb 11, 2008