Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-JAC'U-LATE, v.t. [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. Blackstone. It is now seldom used, except to express the utterance of a short prayer; as, he ejaculated a few words.