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ejaculate

verb transitive

[L. 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.