Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - A word of uncertain meaning
(see etymology) used by Shakspere in the following passage,
explained as meaning either ‘blown away, exorcised’—that is,
‘renounced, rejected as evil’—or ‘puffed out, exaggerated’: GNU
Webster's 1913 - adj. A Shakespearean word only once used.
Empty; frivolous. “It's not "exsufflicate" (Shakespeare, Othello
3.3.184 ed Sanders TLN 1798), a word which appears only in one
spot in Shakespeare (and in the words of people like me who talk
about words in Shakespeare), and so has no easily understood
agreed upon meaning.” “Were I to find a quotation of
"exsufflicate" that predates Othello by 13 years, I would be
VERY excited.” “And sometimes, not having the fear of poetical,
or rather of unpoetical precisians and martinets before his
eyes, he did not even scruple to naturalize words for his own
use from foreign springs, such as exsufflicate and deracinate;
or to coin a word, whenever the concurring reasons of sense and
verse invited it; as in fedary, int