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Inflate themselves with some insane delight.

Tennyson.

3. To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.

In*flate", v. i. To expand; to fill; to distend.

In*flat"ed (?), a. 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.

2. Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style.

Inflated and astrut with self- conceit.

Cowper.

3. (Bot.) Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn.

4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc.

In*flat"er (?), n. One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.

In*flat"ing*ly, adv. In a manner tending to inflate.

In*fla"tion (?), n. [L. inflatio: cf. F. inflation.] 1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle.

2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson.

3. Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency. [U.S.]

In*fla"tion*ist, n. One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money. [U.S.]

||In*fla"tus (?), n. [L. See Inflate, v. t.] A blowing or breathing ||into; inflation; inspiration. || The divine breath that blows the nostrils out To ineffable inflatus.

Mrs. Browning.

In*flect" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflected; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflecting.] [L. inflectere, inflexum; pref. in- in + flectere to bend. See Flexible, and cf. Inflex.] 1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

Are they [the rays of the sun] not reflected, refracted, and inflected by one and the same principle ?

Sir I. Newton.

2. (Gram.) To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb.

3. To modulate, as the voice.

In*flect"ed, a. 1. Bent; turned; deflected.

2. (Gram.) Having inflections; capable of, or subject to, inflection; inflective.

Inflected cycloid (Geom.), a prolate cycloid. See Cycloid.

In*flec"tion (?), n. [L. inflexio : cf. F. inflexion. See Inflect.] [Written also inflecxion.] 1. The act of inflecting, or the state of being inflected.

2. A bend; a fold; a curve; a turn; a twist.