Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The action of throwing, darting, hurling, or launching, as weapons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of tossing, throwing, or hurling, as spears.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The act of
throwing ortossing something
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Examples
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One of the best episodes begins with Xavier trying to sell road kill to a restaurant and ends with a prostitute aura who provides aural sex to the point of soul-jaculation causing the end of the world with a spiritually transmitted disease.
XAVIER RENEGADE ANGEL Season One and Two DVD Review – Collider.com 2009
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Well, I did kind o 'put up a sort o' silent 'jaculation, as a body may say.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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More poestries from Chickspeer’s with gleechoreal music or a jaculation from the garden of the soul.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Hurled to and fro in jaculation dire, "murmured M'Nicholl, who could quote you Milton quite as readily as the
All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866
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