An acid-base indicator which is colorless in acid solution, but turns pink to red as the solution becomes alkaline. It is used medicinally as a cathartic.
Exsufflicate
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Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.]Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).
Exsufflicate meaning & definition 1 of Exsufflicate.
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Only used once by Shakespeare in Othello and is guessed to mean inflated, or spat out and flyblown.
Exsufflicate meaning & definition 2 of Exsufflicate.
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