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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Af-flā'tus, n.

noun

n. [Lat. afflātus.] 1. A breath or blast of wind.

  1. Communication of divine knowledge, or the power of prophecy. “The prophetic afflātus.” Barnes.
  2. The inspiration of a poet.
  3. (Med.) A term applied to a current of air which strikes the body and produces disease. Dunglison.