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Pronunciation
Noun
jactation (countable and uncountable, plural jactations)
- A tossing or shaking of the body; physical agitation, especially while asleep or confined to bed by illness; jactitation.
- The action of throwing.
- 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
- The projicient hath the stone in his hand, and with force and violence throws his arm, with which jactation the stone doth not move so much as the circumambient Air.
- Boasting; bragging; showing off.
References
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “jactation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- “jactation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.