exsufflation: a kind of exorcism performed by blowing and spitting at the evil spirit...Exsufflate was an old ecclesiastical term for the form of renouncing the devil in the baptism of catachumens, when the candidate was commanded to turn to the west and thrice sufflate Satan.
(from: _The Word Museum_ by Jeffrey Kacirck)
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