afflation

Lefties and Righties alike have given their brain to the Media outlet of their choice, or the political afflation, or the Snickers Commercial on TV.

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I count it as one of the most spontaneous gavottes of modern times, one that is buoyant with the afflation of the olden days.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

But Ferriday was deep in love with his art; he was panting with the afflation of Apollo.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

From Shakespeare, Huss drew the afflation for another aria of great interest, a setting for barytone voice of the "Seven Ages of Man."

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

According to my philosophy, which regards the world in its entirety as full of a divine afflation, there is no place for individual will in the government of the universe.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897

The machinery of personification was understood to have been unconsciously assumed as a mere expedient to supply the deficiencies of language; and the Mimansa justly considered itself as only interpreting the true meaning of the Mantras, when it proclaimed that, in the beginning, "Nothing was but Mind, the Creative Thought of Him which existed alone from the beginning, and breathed without afflation."

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

When a man is disposed to receive the prophetic afflation of Correspondences, it rouses within him a perception of the Word; he comprehends that the creations are transformations only; his intellect is sharpened, a burning thirst takes possession of him which only Heaven can quench.

Seraphita Honor�� de Balzac 1824

This is a Vertue truely Di - vine, as well in its original as it's end * for at it comes from Heaven, (is an afflation of die blefled Spirit) fb it tends thither alio, and thi - ther railes it's Votaries.

The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts 1705

To allow any and all such entities to be listed gives the voters more information about a candidate and the candidate greater latitude to express who he or she is; to limit the listing to officially recognized parties permits a voter to confirm that a particular candidate is indeed registered into the party listed on the ballot and, further, that the afflation listed is more than just six guys who meet for Friday night poker and call themselves the "card party."

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Harry Kresky 2010

"engender his Son of a pure Virgin, by divine afflation."

Mediaeval Tales Henry Morley 1858