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.
Jer. Taylor. 3. (Physiol.) The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct.
Ejaculator
(E*jac"u*la`tor) n. [NL. See Ejaculate.] (Anat.) A muscle which helps ejaculation.
Ejaculatory
(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.
Eject
(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.
Ejection
(E*jec"tion) n. [L. ejectio: cf. F. éjection.]
1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast ejection of ashes." Eustace.
"The ejection of a word." Johnson.
2. (Physiol.) The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions.
3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment.
Ejectment
(E*ject"ment) n.
1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of tenants from their homes.
2. (Law) A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages
and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton.
Ejector
(E*ject"or) n.
1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
2. (Mech.) A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
Ejector condenser (Steam Engine), a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump.
Ejoo
(||E"joo) n. [Malay iju or hiju.] Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.
