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单词 difflate
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difflatev.

Forms: 1500s–1700s difflate, 1600s diflate.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin difflāt-, difflāre.
Etymology: < classical Latin difflāt-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of difflāre to scatter or disperse by blowing < dif- dif- prefix + flāre to blow (see flatus n.). Compare earlier difflation n.
Obsolete.
transitive. To cause to disperse as a vapour; to cause difflation of (see difflation n.).In quot. 1590: (perhaps) = inflate v. 1.
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the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > set (air) in motion [verb (transitive)] > blow out, away, or apart
overblowa1387
ventilatea1440
blast1548
difflate1590
exsufflate1666
whuffle1906
1590 W. Clever Flower of Phisicke 72 For a moyst bodie in a man is easily ingurged, difflated, puffed.
1623 T. Venner Viae Rectae Pars Secunda i. 16 Thereby..vaporous and rheumaticke superfluities [are] discussed and difflated.
1675 G. Thomson Ορθο-μέθοδος ἰατρο-χυμικὴ: Direct Method curing Chymically v. 37 Now Superfluities the more they are rarefied, and volatilized by kindly Ferments, the sooner they are difflated or sent packing by Respiration, and Transpiration through the habit of the Body.
1755 Philos. Trans. 1754 (Royal Soc.) 48 687 Platina was likewise treated with crude antimony; and the regulus, obtained from this mixture, difflated as the foregoing, with the same event.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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