Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume DEE·jac"u·late (?), v. i. To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations. [R.] "Ejaculating to himself." Sir W. Scott. E·jac`u·la"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. éjaculation.] 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." Bacon. 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. E·jac"u·la`tor (?), n. [NL. See Ejaculate.] (Anat.) A muscle which helps ejaculation. E·jac"u·la·to·ry (?), a. 1. Casting or throwing out; fitted to eject; as, ejaculatory vessels. 2. Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as, an ejaculatory prayer or petition. 3. Sudden; hasty. [Obs.] "Ejaculatory repentances, that take us by fits and starts." L'Estrange. E·ject" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ejected; p. pr. & vb. n. Ejecting.] [L. ejectus, p. p. of ejicere; e out + jacere to throw. See Jet a shooting forth.] 1. To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out; to discharge; as, to eject a person from a room; to eject a traitor from the country; to eject words from the language. "Eyes ejecting flame." H. Brooke. 2. (Law) To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate. Syn. -- To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict; dislodge; extrude; void. E"ject (?), n. [See Eject, v. t.] (Philos.) An object that is a conscious or living object, and hence not a direct object, but an inferred object or act of a subject, not myself; -- a term invented by W. K. Clifford. |