exspiration

noun

1. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete form of expiration.

   “If the skin be ouer thick, or ouer rare, thẽ doth it not admit throgh the thicknes of the ſpirites, or at the leaſt maketh not that ſhewe, nor retaineth them through the rareneſſe and thinnes, and by exſpiration make no apparaunce of rednes: this is the cauſe why many aſhamed bee not ſo ready to bluſh.”

   “Empedocles is of opinion, that the firſt Reſpiration of the firſt living creature was occaſioned, when the humiditie in young ones within the mothers wombe retired, and the outward aire came to ſucceed in place thereof, and to enter into the void veſſels now open to receive the ſame: but afterwards the naturall heat driving without forth, this aerie ſubſtance for to evaporate and breath away, cauſed exſpiration: […]”

   “When very hungry it crouches, resting the whole length of the legs upon the ground, and supplicantly seems to demand food, by nodding the head, flapping its unwieldy pinions, and forcibly blowing the air from the lungs with audible exspirations.”