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Ejaculation   /idʒˌækjulˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Ejaculation  n.  
1.
The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. (Archaic or Technical) "An ejaculation or irradiation of the eye."
2.
The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered. "In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing."
3.
(Physiol.) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.






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... meteor, but the feeling which excited it remained engrafted on his memory for ever. "How shall we find him out, my dear Horatio?" said my aunt, her whole countenance animated with delight at the last flattering ejaculation of her nephew-"where shall we seek him?—I'll order the carriage directly." The glow of pleasure and anticipatory gratification, which at this moment beamed in the countenance of the old lady, brought back the circling current of health to the cheeks of age, and, with the blush of honest feeling, ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... prediction still stands good. And at last, "God preserve King William from all his open and secret enemies, Amen." When if the King should happen to have died, the astrologer plainly foretold it; otherwise it passes but for the pious ejaculation of a loyal subject: Though it unluckily happen'd in some of their almanacks, that poor King William was pray'd for many months after he was dead, because it fell out that he died about the beginning ...
— The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers • Jonathan Swift

... eyes were on him. He took no notice of her; he stood frowning for an instant, then, with some muttered ejaculation, he strode back into the house. We hoard his heavy tread across the drawing-room; we heard the door slammed behind him, and I found myself looking on ...
— Comedies of Courtship • Anthony Hope

... commands are that I should speak whatever I have in my heart; this boon is more precious to your slave than the empire of the seven climes; then be generous and accept this wretch! keep me at your feet and elevate me," On hearing this ejaculation, she became thoughtful for a moment; then regarding me askance, she said, "Sit down; your services and fidelity have been such that whatever you say becomes you; they are also engraven on my heart. Well; I comply ...
— Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes • Mir Amman of Dihli

... not merely for the present generation, but for posterity. If God stand by me and look to the victuals, I hope to perform something yet." Eternal type of the consolation which the consciousness of truth brings with it, his ejaculation on the discovery of his third law remains one of the sublimest utterances of the human mind:—"The die is cast; the book is written,—to be read now or by posterity, I care not which: it may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860 • Various


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