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noun - (medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity)
noun - an act of blowing or breathing on or into something
The act or an instance of insufflating.
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| The act or an instance of insufflating. |
| Ecclesiastical A ritual act of breathing on baptismal water or on the one being baptized. |
| an act of blowing or breathing on or into something |
| (medicine) blowing air or medicated powder into the lungs (or into some other body cavity) |
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In religious and magical practice, insufflation and exsufflation are ritual acts of blowing, breathing, hissing, or puffing that signify variously expulsion or renunciation of evil or of the devil (the Evil One), or infilling or blessing with good (especially, in religious use, with the Spirit or grace of God). * In historical Christian practice, such blowing appears most prominently in the liturgy, and is connected almost exclusively with baptism and other ceremonies of Christian initiation, achieving its greatest popularity during periods in which such ceremonies were given a prophylactic or exorcistic significance, and were viewed as essential to the defeat of the devil or to the removal of the taint of original sin.Ritual blowing occurs in the liturgies of catechumenate and baptism from a very early period and survives into the modern Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Maronite, and Coptic rites. Catholic liturgy post-Vatican II (the so-called novus ordo 1969) has largely done away with |