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Definition of Sufflate
1. v. t. To blow up; to inflate; to inspire.
Definition of Sufflate
1. Verb. (archaic) inflate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sufflate
1. to inflate [v -FLATED, -FLATING, -FLATES] - See also: inflate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sufflate
Literary usage of Sufflate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Barrow, Sermon on the Gunpowder Plot. sufflate (su-flaf), vt; prêt, ... blow up :
see sufflate.] The act of blowing up or inflating. ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"Ití. SUFFICIENT, sufficiency. One man's sufficient is more available than ten
thousands multitude.—Sidney, Arcadia, p. 452. sufflate, to inspire. ..."
3. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"... after and to an object, such as the Latin preposition sub affords, makes its
appearance in compounds in: succeed; subjoin; suffix; sufflate; succor; ..."
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