interjaculate
English
editEtymology
editFrom inter- + jaculate? inter- + ejaculate?
Verb
editinterjaculate (third-person singular simple present interjaculates, present participle interjaculating, simple past and past participle interjaculated)
- (transitive) To ejaculate (a remark, etc.) parenthetically.
- 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
- "O Dieu ! que n'ai - je pu le voir," interjaculates Mademoiselle
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “interjaculate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)