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ejaculative

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Ejaculatory.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • 1866, George Henry Calvert, First Years in Europe, Extract reproduced in 1993, Karl Ortseifen, Winfried Herget, Holger Lamm (editors), Picturesque in the Highest Degree... Americans on the Rhine, page 28, We were now so far inland that none of my fellow-passengers had probably ever stood on the wharf of a larger sea-port, for I was the first American they had seen; and the surprise was ejaculative that I was white, and increased to wonder when they learnt that I had made the passage from America to Europe in only twenty days.

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History

Etymology

From ejaculate + -ive.