jactation
(dʒækˈteɪʃən)
[ad. L. jactātiōn-em, n. of action from jactāre to throw, toss about, discuss, boast of, refl. to talk boastfully, make an ostentatious display, freq. of jacĕre to throw; cf. F. jactation (Cotgr.).]
1. A tossing or swinging of the body to and fro; spec. in Path. = jactitation 2.
| 1680–90 Temple Ess., Health Wks. 1731 I. 282 Jactations..help or occasion Sleep, as we find by the common Use and Experience of rocking froward Children in Cradles, or dandling them in their Nurses Arms. 1751 G. Lavington Enthus. Methodists (1754) II. iii. 96 Various Tumults of Mind, and Jactations of Body. 1887 Syd. Soc. Lex., Jactation. Same as Jactitation. |
2. Boasting, bragging, ostentatious display.
| 1576 J. Woolton Chr. Manual (Parker Soc.) 91 If we use them with excess, filthy pleasure, vain jactation..we abuse Gods gifts. 1604 T. Wright Passions i. vi. 26, I could adde..Envy, Emulation..Iactation or Boasting. 1825 Lond. Mag. I. 379 There is no surer sign of vulgarity than jactation of gentility. 1886 Saintsbury in Macm. Mag. July 171 The tedious burlesque, the more tedious jactation which disfigure his work. |