You searched for:
“ejaculate”
ejaculate, ejaculated
1. To utter suddenly and passionately; to exclaim; to utter impulsively: "He blurted out (ejaculated) the secret." or to ejaculate a prayer.
2. To eject or discharge abruptly and swiftly; to expel suddenly; such as, a dart, especially, to discharge or eject fluids from the body.
3. From ex-, "out" plus jaculari, "to throw, to dart", from jaculum "javelin", from jacere, "to throw." Only other surviving sense is "exclaim suddenly" (1666).
2. To eject or discharge abruptly and swiftly; to expel suddenly; such as, a dart, especially, to discharge or eject fluids from the body.
3. From ex-, "out" plus jaculari, "to throw, to dart", from jaculum "javelin", from jacere, "to throw." Only other surviving sense is "exclaim suddenly" (1666).
This entry is located in the following unit:
jet-, -ject, -jecting, -jected, -jection, -jector, -jectory; jacu-, jac-
(page 2)