Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A false boasting or claim, especially one detrimental to the interests of another.
- noun Extreme restlessness or tossing in bed, as can occur with some forms of acute disease.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A frequent tossing to and fro, especially of the body, as in great pain or high fever; restlessness.
- noun Agitation.
- noun Vain boasting; bragging; in canon law, false boasting; insistence on a wrongful claim, to the annoyance and injury of another.
- noun In Louisiana, an action to recover damages for slander of title to land, or to obtain confirmation of title by a public recognition of it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim.
- noun (Med.) A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium.
- noun (Eng. Eccl. Law) a giving out or boasting by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
bragging orboasting , especially in afalse manner to another'sdetriment - noun medicine extreme
restlessness ;tossing and turning in bed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)
- noun speaking of yourself in superlatives
- noun (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We think it can be said in all fairness that the right of action for jactitation of marriage has never been recognized as warranted by the common law as it was introduced in and adopted by this country.
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A sort of jactitation case, leading to pcriminal prosecution, was in the news just last week arthurQuote
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But unmixed hydromel, rather than the diluted, produces frothy evacuations, such as are unseasonably and intensely bilious, and too hot; but such an evacuation occasions other great mischiefs, for it neither extinguishes the heat in the hypochondria, but rouses it, induces inquietude, and jactitation of the limbs, and ulcerates the intestines and anus.
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Yes, Essentially, all you needed was mutual jactitation and you were legally married in the eyes of the Commonwealth.
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“Gay marriage” is an extreme case of jactitation, one in which State officials and courts are sometimes complicit.
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On the twentieth, wild delirium, On the twentieth, wild delirium, jactitation, passed no urine; small drinks were retained.
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Essentially, all you needed was mutual jactitation and you were legally married in the eyes of the Commonwealth.
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It is urged by counsel for respondent that the allegation of nonmarriage as a ground for affirmative relief is warranted by the course of procedure at common law and is in the nature of a cross-bill setting forth the grounds of complaint in an action for jactitation of marriage.
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It has not only been a question, Captain Shandy, amongst the (Vide Swinburn on Testaments, Part 7. para 8.) best lawyers and civilians in this land, continued Kysarcius, ‘Whether the mother be of kin to her child,’ — but, after much dispassionate enquiry and jactitation of the arguments on all sides — it has been adjudged for the negative — namely,
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It has not only been a question, Captain Shandy, amongst the (Vide Swinburn on Testaments, Part 7. para 8.) best lawyers and civilians in this land, continued Kysarcius, ‘Whether the mother be of kin to her child,’ — but, after much dispassionate enquiry and jactitation of the arguments on all sides — it has been adjudged for the negative — namely,
TechnoMom commented on the word jactitation
a tossing to and fro or jerking and twitching of the body
October 31, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word jactitation
"'Well, sir, this is the second day of the first stadium, and we may expect a diminution of the animal heat—increasing restlessness and jactitation... And although the muscular pains and heavy sweats of yesterday diminish, the patient grows increasingly despondent.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 228
March 18, 2008
smeggo commented on the word jactitation
I jactitate better than anyone I know.
October 10, 2008
bilby commented on the word jactitation
*nods*
October 10, 2008
LindaLWeeksOne commented on the word jactitation
I'll never get an entire night's sleep, if my husband doesn't desist with these jactitations of his.
January 25, 2012