exspiration

plural exspirations

1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of expiration.

   When very hungry it crouches, resting the whole length of the legs upon the ground, and supplicantly seems to demand food, by nodding the head, flapping its unwieldy pinions, and forcibly blowing the air from the lungs with audible exspirations.

   1815 May 2, George Montagu, “Some Remarks on the Natural History of the Black Stork, for the first time captured in Great Britain. […] Ardea nigra. Linn. Black Stork.”, in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume XII, London: […] Richard and Arthur Taylor, […], published 1818, →OCLC, page 20

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   If the skin be ouer thick, or ouer rare, thẽ doth it not admit throgh the thicknes of the ſpirites, or at the leaſt maketh not that ſhewe, nor retaineth them through the rareneſſe and thinnes, and by exſpiration make no apparaunce of rednes: this is the cauſe why many aſhamed bee not ſo ready to bluſh.

   1586, T[imothie] Bright, “The causes of blushing and bashfulnesse, and why melancholicke persons are giuen thereunto”, in A Treatise of Melancholy. […], London: […] Iohn Windet, →OCLC, pages 164–165

   Empedocles is of opinion, that the firſt Reſpiration of the firſt living creature was occaſioned, when the humiditie in young ones within the mothers wombe retired, and the outward aire came to ſucceed in place thereof, and to enter into the void veſſels now open to receive the ſame: but afterwards the naturall heat driving without forth, this aerie ſubſtance for to evaporate and breath away, cauſed exſpiration: […]

   1603, Plutarch, “Of Respiration”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 840, lines 10–14