EJAC'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin ejaculor, from jaculor, to throw or dart, jaculum, a dart, from jacio, to throw.]
To throw out; to cast; to shoot; to dart; as rays of light ejaculated.
It is now seldom used, except to express the utterance of a short prayer; as, he ejaculated a few words.
EJACULA'TION, noun The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight; as the ejaculation of light. [This sense is nearly obsolete.]
1. The uttering of a short prayer; or a short occasional prayer uttered.
EJAC'ULATORY, adjective Suddenly darted out; uttered in short sentences; as an ejaculatory prayer or petition.
1. Sudden; hasty; as ejaculatory repentance.
2. Casting; throwing out.
EJECT', verb transitive [Latin ejicio, ejectum; e and jacio, to throw; jacto.]
1. To throw out; to cast forth; to thrust out, as from a place inclosed or confined.
2. To discharge through the natural passages or emunctories; to evacuate.
3. To throw out or expel from an office; to dismiss from an office; to turn out; as, to eject a clergyman.
4. To dispossess of land or estate.
5. To drive away; to expel; to dismiss with hatred.
6. To cast away; to reject; to banish; as, to eject words from a language.
EJECT'ED, participle passive Thrown out; thrust out; discharged; evacuated; expelled; dismissed; dispossessed; rejected.
EJECT'ING, participle present tense Casting out; discharging; evacuating; expelling; dispossessing; rejecting.
EJEC'TION, noun [Latin ejectio.] The act of casting out; expulsion.
1. Dismission from office.
2. Dispossession; a turning out from possession by force or authority.
3. The discharge of any excrementitious matter through the pores or other emunctories; evacuation; vomiting.
4. Rejection.
EJECT'MENT, noun Literally, a casting out; a dispossession.
1. In law, a writ or action which lies for the recovery of possession of land from which the owner has been ejected, and for trial of title. ejectment may be brought by the lessor against the lessee for rent in arrear, or for holding over his term; also by the lessee for years, who has been ejected before the expiration of his term.
EJECT'OR, noun One who ejects or dispossesses another of his land.
EJULA'TION, noun [Latin ejulatio, from ejulo, to cry, to yell, to wail.]
Outcry; a wailing; a loud cry expressive of grief or pain; mourning; lamentation.