inflatus

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He described himself as a victim of "the inflatus of oratory" and a "veritable peripatetic bifurcated volcano."

From Time Magazine Archive

The two species, G. tropicalis and S. inflatus, are fossorial and for this reason probably were able to resist inhospitable climates better than non-burrowing species.

From The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico by Alvarez, Ticul

The great sun, burning with light, the strong earth,—dear earth,—the warm sky, the pure air, the thought of ocean, the inexpressible beauty of all filled me with a rapture, an ecstasy, an inflatus.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William

What god, with his caressing inflatus, hath tossed back thy dishevelled curls?

From A Reckless Character And Other Stories by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

Resemblances also exist between the endospores and the spore-formations in the Saccharomycetes, and if Bacillus inflatus, B. ventriculus, &c., really form more than one spore in the cell, these analogies are strengthened.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various