Meanings
adjectiveexsufflicate (comparative more exsufflicate, superlative most exsufflicate)
comparative more exsufflicate · superlative most exsufflicate
- obsoleteempty and inflated; frivolous
[…] exchange me for a goat, / When I shall turn the business of my soul / To such exsufflicate and blown surmises […]
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]
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