insufflate

transitive verb

To blow or breathe into or on.

transitive verb

To treat medically by blowing a powder, gas, or vapor into a bodily cavity.

To blow into; specifically, in medicine, to treat by insufflation. See insufflation, 3.

Eccles., to breathe upon, especially upon catechumens or the water of baptism. See insufflation, 2.

adjective

To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.

verb

To breathe or blow into or on.

verb

To treat by blowing a gas, vapor, or powder into a body cavity.

verb

To inhale (a powder etc.).

verb

To exhale upon baptismal water, or the one being baptised, as a ritual act.

verb

breathe or blow onto as a ritual or sacramental act, especially so as to symbolize the action of the Holy Spirit