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Webster 1913 Edition
Exsufflicate
Ex-suf′fli-cate
,Adj.
Empty; frivolous.
[A Shakespearean word only once used.]
Such
exsufflicate
and blown surmises. Shakespeare
Definition 2025
exsufflicate
exsufflicate
English
Adjective
exsufflicate (comparative more exsufflicate, superlative most exsufflicate)
- empty, inflated, frivolous
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 3, Scene 3
- […] exchange me for a goat, / When I shall turn the business of my soul / To such exsufflicate and blown surmises […]
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 3, Scene 3
References
- exsufflicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913