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Ejaculating

Ejaculate \E*jac"u*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ejaculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Ejaculating.] [L. ejaculatus, p. p. of ejaculari to throw out; e out + ejaculari to throw, fr. jaculum javelin, dart, fr. jacere to throw. See Eject.]

  1. To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject. [Archaic or Technical]

    Its active rays ejaculated thence.
    --Blackmore.

  2. To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.

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ejaculating

vb. (present participle of ejaculate English)

Usage examples of "ejaculating".

He released her with unexpected alacrity, ejaculating: 'I might have known it!

Torquil stumbled over a passage, and brought his hands down in a crashing discord, ejaculating savagely: Fool, fool, cowhanded fool!

He chuckled a good deal over it, rubbing his hands together, and ejaculating: "Cow-handed little puss!

Theo, who, for the past few minutes, had been standing, with Miss Morville, rooted on the threshold, strode forward, ejaculating thunderously: "Martin!

Morville answered the question in his wife's mind by staring very hard at the Viscount, and ejaculating: "Ulverston, eh?

From these she was presently recalled by his lordship's voice, ejaculating: 'At last!

Mr Philips rubbed his hands together, and could not refrain from ejaculating: 'Ha!