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Word Meanings - AFFLATUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A breath or blast of wind. 2. A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

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  • MANIAC
    Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
  • RAVENER
    1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland.
  • RAVISHER
    One who ravishes .
  • RAVENOUS
    1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
  • RAVELIN
    A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon.
  • INTUITION
    1. A looking after; a regard to. What, no reflection on a reward! He might have an intuition at it, as the encouragement, though not the cause, of his pains. Fuller. 2. Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or
  • RAVEN
    A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus,
  • RAVENING
    Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39.
  • INTUITIONALISM
    The doctrine that the perception or recognition of primary truth is intuitive, or direct and immediate; -- opposed to sensationalism, and experientialism.
  • RAVISHING
    Rapturous; transporting.
  • RAVAGER
    One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler.
  • REVELATION
    1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
  • RAVAGE
    Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble
  • MANIABLE
    Manageable. Bacon.
  • RAVER
    One who raves.
  • RAVENALA
    A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and
  • RAVELER
    One who ravels.
  • INSPIRATIONIST
    One who holds to inspiration.
  • PHRENSY
    Violent and irrational excitement; delirium. See Frenzy.
  • INSANITY
    Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility. Syn. - Insanity, Lunacy,
  • PARAVAIL
    At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton.
  • GRAVIDATION
    Gravidity.
  • MORAVIAN
    Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n.
  • GRAVES
    The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
  • MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
    The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
  • GRAVEDIGGER
    See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
  • TRAVEL
    1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health;
  • MEGALOMANIA
    A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
  • NYMPHOMANIA
    Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
  • AGGRAVATING
    1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.
  • ICONOMANIA
    A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.
  • WILDGRAVE
    A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
  • DRAVIDIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.
  • GRAVIDITY
    The state of being gravidated; pregnancy.

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