Meanings
plural difflations
- obsoleteuncountableusuallyA blowing apart or away.
1 more example
The famous author of the Commentary on the 12th of the first section of aphorisms, affirms, that the meat is proportioned to the difflation, and, Com. 15th, that there is a greater difflation in the winter-time, therefore it is requisite there should be more meat eaten; it is therefore requisite the weight should be known; all which the trifling staticomastix denies.
1807, Sir John Sinclair, The Code of Health and Longevity
Origin
- Latindifflare
- Latindifflatio
- Englishdifflation
From Latin difflatio, from Latin difflare, difflatum (“to disperse by blowing”).
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