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Meaning of "afflated" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF AFFLATED

əfˈleɪtɪd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AFFLATED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Afflated is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES AFFLATED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Afflatus

Afflatus is a Latin term derived from Cicero (in De Natura Deorum (The Nature of the Gods)) that has been translated as "inspiration." Cicero's usage was a literalizing of "inspiration," which had already become figurative. As "inspiration" came to mean simply the gathering of a new idea, Cicero reiterated the idea of a rush of unexpected breath, a powerful force that would render the poet helpless and unaware of its origin. Literally, the Latin "afflatus" means "to blow upon/toward". It was originally spelt "adflatus," made up of "ad" (to) and "flatus" (blowing/breathing), the noun form of "flāre" (to blow). It can be taken to mean "to be blown upon" by a divine wind, not unlike its English equivalent "inspiration," which comes from "inspire," meaning "to breathe/blow onto". In English, "afflatus" is used for this literal form of inspiration. It generally refers not to the usual sudden originality, but to the staggering and stunning blow of a new idea, an idea that the recipient may be unable to explain.

Definition of afflated in the English dictionary

The definition of afflated in the dictionary is showing inspiration, resulting from influence of someone or something.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AFFLATED

AIDS-related · belated · calculated · disrelated · elated · HIV-related · interrelated · irrelated · isolated · lated · plated · related · silver-plated · simulated · smoking-related · stellated · stress-related · unelated · unrelated · untranslated

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AFFLATED

affixture · afflation · afflatus · afflict · afflicted · afflicter · afflicting · affliction · afflictive · afflictively · affluence · affluency · affluent · affluent society · affluential · affluently · affluentness · affluenza · afflux · affluxion

WORDS THAT END LIKE AFFLATED

articulated · castellated · chromium-plated · dedicated · deflated · depopulated · electroplated · gold-plated · inflated · nickel-plated · overpopulated · pixelated · pixellated · pixilated · populated · steel-plated · uncirculated · uncorrelated · unpopulated · unregulated · unstimulated

Synonyms and antonyms of afflated in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «afflated» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AFFLATED

Find out the translation of afflated to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of afflated from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «afflated» in English.
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afflated
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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570 millions of speakers
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hi

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380 millions of speakers
ar

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280 millions of speakers
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afflated
278 millions of speakers
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afflated
270 millions of speakers
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260 millions of speakers
fr

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Afflated
220 millions of speakers
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Terpesona
190 millions of speakers
de

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180 millions of speakers
ja

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130 millions of speakers
ko

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afflated
85 millions of speakers
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Afflated
85 millions of speakers
vi

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afflated
80 millions of speakers
ta

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afflated
75 millions of speakers
mr

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Afflated
75 millions of speakers
tr

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afflated
70 millions of speakers
it

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65 millions of speakers
pl

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50 millions of speakers
uk

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40 millions of speakers
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afflated
30 millions of speakers
el

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afflated
15 millions of speakers
af

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afflated
14 millions of speakers
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10 millions of speakers
no

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5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFFLATED»

Discover the use of afflated in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to afflated and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words Your ...
... awkward relationship afflated (af-LAY-ted) inspired a poet more inflated than afflated affrontee (af-frun-TEE) an insulted person a politically correct atmosphere swelling the numbers of affrontees affrontive (af-FRUN-tiv) insulting the hostess's  ...
David Grambs, 1997
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Critical Assumptions
An afflated style is not to be confused with an inflated one, said Thackeray, for the afflated manner is produced whenever a writer sits 'like a Pythoness on her oracle tripod, and mighty words, words which he cannot help, come blowing, and  ...
K. K. Ruthven, 1979
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Friendship's Offering
Would she have lost the poet's fire, For anguish of the burning 1 — The minstrel harp, for strained string 1 The tripod for th' afflated Wo 1 or the vision, for those tears In which it shone dilated ? Perhaps she shuddered, while the world's Cold ...
Catharine Harbeson Waterman Esling, 1841
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Popular Science
In like manner the imagination foretells things ; we spake anon of the afflated style, when a writer is like a pythoness on her oracle tripod, and mighty words — words which he can not help — come blowing, and whistling, and moaning through ...
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Roundabout Papers: (from the Cornhill Magazine) To which is ...
is an afflated style, — when a writer is like a Pythoness on her oracle tripod, and mighty words, words which he cannot help, come blowing, and bellowing, and whistling, and moaning through the speaking pipes of his bodily organ ? I have told ...
William Makepeace Thackeray, 1883
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The Poetical Works
T. Nor mourn, O living One, because her part in life was mourning. Would she have lost the poet's fire for anguish of the burning? The minstrel harp, for the strained string? the tripod, for the afflated Woe ? or the vision, for those tears in which it ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1877
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Spare Hours
What also if there is an afflated style; when a writer is like a Pythoness, or her oracle tripod, and mighty words, words which he cannot help, come blowing, and bellowing, and whistling, and moaning through the speaking pipes of his bodily ...
John Brown, 1878
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Poems
Would she have lost the poet's fire for anguish of the burning?— The minstrel harp, for the strained string ? the tripod, for the afflated Woe ? or the vision, for those tears in which it shone dilated ? Perhaps she shuddered while the world's cold ...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1859
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PC Mag
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The Atlantic Monthly
What also if there is an afflated style, — when a writer is like a Pythoness on her oracle tripod, and mighty words, words which he cannot help, come blowing, and bellowing, and whistling, and moaning through the speaking pipes of his bodily ...
REFERENCE
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