exsufflicate
English
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editexsufflicate (comparative more exsufflicate, superlative most exsufflicate)
- empty and inflated; frivolous
- 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]:
- […] exchange me for a goat, / When I shall turn the business of my soul / To such exsufflicate and blown surmises […]
References
edit- “exsufflicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.