jactation

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Apparently, maceration is one of those words like "jactation" that sounds dirty but is actually quite technical-it refers to some type of esoteric fermentation process that infuses fruit with vodka.

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  1. The act or practice of throwing, as missile weapons. We find weapons employed in jactation which seem unfit for such a purpose. J. Hewitt.
  2. Agitation of the body from restlessness or for exercise; the exercise of riding in some kind of vehicle. Among the Romans there were four things much in use;… bathing, fumigation, friction, and jactation. Sir W. Temple, Health and Long Life. Jactations were used … to relieve that intranquillity which attends most diseases, and makes men often impatient of lying still in their beds. Sir W. Temple, Health and Long Life.
  3. Boasting; bragging.

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  • Apparently, maceration is one of those words like "jactation" that sounds dirty but is actually quite technical-it refers to some type of esoteric fermentation process that infuses fruit with vodka. —  FASHION INDIE
 

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  1. = French jactation = Provencal jactacio, from Latin jactatio(n-), a throwing, agitation, a boasting, from jactare, throw, shake, agitate, discuss, utter, reflexive boast, brag, freq. of jacere, throw, cast: see jet. Cf. jettison, jetsam, ult. a doublet of jactation.
 

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