Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of the nature of an ejaculation; ejaculatory: as, an ejaculative expression.

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Examples

  • He thought with emotion — aloud, ejaculative, for he was hurt and confused.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • It appeared, as well as I could decree, that the cause of his ejaculative outcry was the discovery of perhaps three, perhaps four, other young men, in coats of the same shiny material as my escorts.

    The Day of the Boomer Dukes Frederik Pohl 1957

  • There is really no other word in the English language to express the meaning of the ejaculative sound he made, which signified, equally, acquiescence, approval, disapproval, or anything.

    Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

  • He thought with emotion -- aloud, ejaculative, for he was hurt and confused.

    The Beautiful and Damned 1918

  • Olivetta was first stunned, then was ejaculative with consternation.

    No. 13 Washington Square Leroy Scott 1902

  • She uttered a little ejaculative note of joy and rushed to the bed.

    The Ragged Edge Harold MacGrath 1901

  • Servants kept score of each man's orgasms, for the Pope greatly admired virility, and measured a man's machismo by his ejaculative capacity.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010

  • Servants kept score of each man's orgasms, for the Pope greatly admired virility, and measured a man's machismo by his ejaculative capacity.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED Mike Rivero 2010

  • Tortoises and ostriches hatch their eggs with only looking on them, which infers that their eyes have in them some ejaculative virtue.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Complete Michel de Montaigne 1562

  • Tortoises and ostriches hatch their eggs with only looking on them, which infers that their eyes have in them some ejaculative virtue.

    The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 03 Michel de Montaigne 1562

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