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Ejaculate   /ɪdʒˈækjulˌeɪt/   Listen
verb
Ejaculate  v. t.  (past & past part. ejaculated; pres. part. ejaculating)  
1.
To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject. (Archaic or Technical) "Its active rays ejaculated thence."
2.
To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.



Ejaculate  v. i.  
1.
To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations. (R.) "Ejaculating to himself."
2.
To eject semen; of a male animal (esp. a human or other mammal) during coitus.






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"Ejaculate" Quotes from Famous Books



... poor fellow felt at his patron's returning consciousness for some time choked his utterance. He could only ejaculate, "A miracle! Blessed Saint Jose, he lives!" and kiss the Padre's bandaged hand. Father Jose, more intent on his last night's experience, waited for his emotion to subside, and asked where he had ...
— Legends and Tales • Bret Harte

... speechless vexation, that, as yet, she was but half-way on her journey. The fronts of the houses appeared to her longer than usual, and in particular did the front of the white stone hospital, with its rows of narrow windows, seem interminable to a degree which at length forced her to ejaculate: "Oh, the cursed building! Positively there is no end to it!" Also, she twice adjured the coachman with the words, "Go quicker, Andrusha! You are a horribly long time over the journey this morning." But at length the goal was reached, and the koliaska ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... deep self-satisfaction which predominated in my soul, even over its appreciation of the novel and amusing, I donned my seal-brown cloak, and stepping out of the door, gathered up my skirts, and smiled at Mr. Lovell with a pair of seal-brown eyes, and was not surprised to hear him ejaculate, coughing slightly; "Ahem! I think so, certainly, yes'm, I ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene

... flashed upon the brain of Phaeton Featherwit, almost robbing him of all power of speech. Still he managed to jerkily ejaculate: ...
— The Lost City • Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

... conceived him, two detected ones made him at a cost of 5s., twelve undetected ones caught him first for 18s., and now he stands in Belgravia, and the fair ejaculate ...
— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade


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