v. Now rare. [f. L. sufflāmināt-, -āre, f. sufflāmen, -min-, f. suf- = SUB- 2 + *flāmen:—*flagmen (cogn. with BALK sb.) beam, balk.] trans. To put an obstacle in the way of, obstruct.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Sufflaminate, to skatch, scotch, or trig a wheel.

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1660.  H. More, Myst. Godl., To Rdr. 24. All their superstitious Ceremonies put together adde nothing to them, but rather stifle and sufflaminate them.

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a. 1672.  Wren, in Gutch, Coll. Cur., I. 252. By long speeches … to sufflaminate the progress of business.

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1683.  Phil. Trans., XIV. 467. These ponds or Cisterns that sufflaminate the Current of the Aqueducts.

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1836.  Tait’s Mag., III. 8. The movement and play of public business is sufflaminated.

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1907.  Athenæum, 27 July, 98/2. An advertisement of ‘the grand hydro-oxygen gas microscope, with powers of magnifying three million times,’ which gave Sam Weller an occasion to sufflaminate Mr. Buzfuz.

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  Hence † Sufflamination. rare–0. (see quot.)

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1658.  Phillips, Sufflamination, a stopping the wheels of a Coach, or Cart, with an Instrument called a Sufflamen, or Trigger.

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