afflatedadj.
/əˈfleɪtᵻd/, U.S. /əˈfleɪtᵻd/ Inspired, esp. by divine or spiritual means. Cf. afflatus n. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective] > inspired
imaginative1509
aspired1597
Hippocrenian1607
wingy1643
afflatitious1671
afflated1835
1835 E. B. Barrett in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 82 Would she have lost the poet's flame, For anguish of the burning? The minstrel harp, for the strain'd string? The tripod, for th' afflated Woe?
1862 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Papers xxiii, in Cornhill Mag. Aug. 287 We spake anon of the inflated style of some writers. What also if there is an afflated style,—when a writer is like a Pythoness?
1916 Pennsylvania Justices' Law Reporter 14 210 Dignity was lent to the brilliant occasion by the flow of oratory... He circulated among the afflated five hundred.
1977 R. Coover Public Burning vi. 105 ‘These liberties are the gift of God.’.. This afflated reflection has stirred the hearts and minds of American Super-heroes from General George Washington right down to the current Incarnation.
2009 R. G. Eisenhauer Ode Consciousness vii. 142 It too is a matter of artifice no more substantial than that of Shelley's in-/afflated ego.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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