afflated
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of afflated
1840–50; obsolete afflate to inspire (< Latin afflātus, past participle of afflāre; afflatus ) + -ed 2
Example Sentences
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The minstrel harp, for the strained string? the tripod, for the afflated Woe? or the vision, for those tears in which it shone dilated?
From Project Gutenberg
The rending of Pentheus on Mount Citheron by his own mother and sisters, who, while under the influence of the Bacchic afflatus, imagined they saw in his form the appearance of a wild beast, might be adduced as an example at once of the furious character of the frenzy, and of the liability of the afflated to optical illusions.
From Project Gutenberg
She was too tottery, too dazzled, too afflated to speak on the way thither, but, at the door, when with a bow I was intending to leave her, she bade me, in a madam-like way that cut off debate or refusal, to enter with her.
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