Meaning of at one blast | Babel Free

Definitions

1. At once, at the same moment in time.
   figuratively, not-comparable
2. With one firing of a cannon or firearm; especially one whose ammunition is shotgun shot or grape shot, such that the multiple pieces of shot from one firing hit multiple birds or multiple soldiers.
   literally, not-comparable

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Examples

“For when Men ſhall obſerve the Nature of the Gun-Powder Treaſon, that it aymed at no leſs than the Deſtruction of the whole State at one blaſte; that the Contrivers were all Papiſts; that the pryme Hope⟳ of their Support⟳ was in the Engliſh Forces that ſerved the Archdukes, for which divers Captains there were prepared; he muſt needs conceive the King here to be unworthy of the eminent Throne in which Almighty God hath placed him as a potent Monarche over ſoe many Kingdoms and People, […]”

“[W]e can't without wonder⟳ remember⟳ that horrid Invention projected in this place⟳, but thanks be to God diſappointed, wherein there was not Reverence to the ſacred Bones of Princes, but all were at one blaſt to be offer'd up to Moloch.”

“[A]s he [the Devil] is the Prince of the Power of the Air, taking the Air there for the Elementary World, how eaſily could he, at one Blaſt, ſweep all the Surface of the Earth into the Sea, or drive⟳ weighty immenſe Surges of the Ocean over the whole Plane of the Earth, and deluge the Globe at once with a Storm?”

“When the dreadful effects of this infernal device [the Ann galley fire-ship] are attended to, and that it is the means, when employed, of plunging a number⟳ of gallant men at one blaſt into eternity, who is there but muſt feel⟳ an inexpreſſible pleaſure at its miſcarriage?”

“Cannon, charged with grape, laid the men as flat as a pavement, exactly as a mighty wind levels standing grain at one blast.”

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