Citations:suffumigation

English citations of suffumigation

• 1715, William Lilly, William Lilly's History of His Life and Times‎^[1], E-text number: 15835:

  I enquired upon what account the spirit carried him away: who said, he had not, at the time of invocation, made any suffumigation, at which the spirits were vexed.

• 1815, Various, The World's Greatest Books, Vol VII‎^[2]:

  Donsterswivel, with much talk of planetary influences, and spirits, and "suffumigation," presently set fire to a little pile of chips, and when the flame was at the highest flung in a handful of perfumes, which produced a strong and pungent odour.

• 1841, Miss Emma Roberts, Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay‎^[3], E-text number: 12064:

  Incense was burning on a tripod placed upon the floor, and the priests muttering prayers, which sounded very like incantations, ever and anon threw some new perfume upon the charcoal, which produced what our friend Dousterswivel would call a "suffumigation."

• 1884, Sir Walter Scott, Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft‎^[4], E-text number: 14461:

  If, as a general opinion assures us, which is not positively discountenanced by Dr. Hibbert, by the inhalation of certain gases or poisonous herbs, necromancers can dispose a person to believe he sees phantoms, it is likely that the nostrils are made to inhale such suffumigation as well as the mouth.

• 1904, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Red Cap Tales‎^[5], E-text number: 22656:

  I would draw a circle with a pentagon, and make my suffumigation within it, while you kept the demon at bay with a drawn sword.