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. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Fox News: ‘Al Gore’s Global Warming Movie: Could It Destroy Our Economy?’] Reference
But Ferriday was deep in love with his art; he was panting with the afflation of Apollo. From Wordnik.com. [We Can't Have Everything] Reference
I count it as one of the most spontaneous gavottes of modern times, one that is buoyant with the afflation of the olden days. From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
From Shakespeare, Huss drew the afflation for another aria of great interest, a setting for barytone voice of the "Seven Ages of Man.". From Wordnik.com. [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] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of My Youth]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Seraphita] Reference
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.". From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
N. - divine breath; inspiration. afflation, n. act of breathing upon; inspiration. affranchise v. - liberate from servitude, debt etc. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
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.". From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
But there was a new afflation. From Wordnik.com. [Late Lyrics and Earlier : with Many Other Verses] Reference
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