ejaculation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French éjaculation, borrowed from Latin ēiaculārī.
Inflected forms:
form: ejaculations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Thus far, we have given a general account of [Nicolas le Fèvre]'s theory. Further elaboration is to be found in his account of the generation of metals. Here it is suggested that it is light "which by its ejaculation and irradiation did imprint and stamp the Idea and Character of its vertue in water as in a general and convenient Matrix, to enable her afterwards to supply both matter and Form, Body and Spirit, Salt, Sulphur and Mercury, [and] all physical generations...".
gloss: The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: They say no graces; but when their meal is on the table, they sit silent and in a thoughtful posture for a short time, waiting for an illapſe of the Spirit. If they are not moved to make any ejaculation, they begin to eat without more ado.
[T]hey entered, and drove slowly towards the village; leaving her with hands clasped and uplifted, as in the act of reiterating her fervent ejaculation for their happiness. Nor was her ejaculation wholly breathed in vain: of their felicity, however, suffice it to record, that blessed with a numerous progeny, Emily found herself completely embosomed in domestic bliss: […]
She gaped at us dumbly for perhaps five seconds, then uttered an ejaculation, far from suitable to mixed company, which she had no doubt picked up from fellow-Nimrods in her hunting days.
gloss: The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Dehiscence, or Ejaculation of Pollen or Seed.— The pollen of plants is the fecundating power, and consists of a number of small sacs, invisible to the naked eye, in which a fluid exists, which is analogous to the spermatic fluid in man and animals.
The spermatophores begin to ejaculate immediately after leaving the penis and the whole process is completed in a very few seconds. Pulling the filament attached to the ejaculatory end of a spermatophore is all that is needed to start its ejaculation.
gloss: The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing fluid or some other substance from a duct or other body structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
specifically
uncountable
examples: The moment of ejaculation in mammiferous animals is accompanied by universal excitement of the whole body, a kind of slight convulsion, which terminates in a comatose or exstatic state.
By repeating this process several times before ejaculation and by practicing this procedure, the man will learn to control his ejaculation.
In all my life I had never seen a woman discharge like that. Not only did she shoot out fuck like a man, but she accompanied her ejaculation with such furious cries, such energetic blasphemy, and such violent spasms, that one would have thought she was having an epileptic fit […] [Translation of the Marquis de Sade's Histoire de Juliette, IX:428.]
One of the most challenging of male sexual disorders is that of delayed ejaculation (DE). The man who cannot readily ejaculate either alone or, most typically, with a partner, feels thwarted, anxious, and sexually incompetent.
Biologically described as the release of seminal fluid from the penis during the male sexual response cycle, male ejaculation is entangled with cultural beliefs about male sexual prowess and masculine authenticity. […] Due to the sexual, cultural, and personal significance of ejaculation, men and boys are vulnerable to prevalent messages about the timing, size, and frequency of their ejaculation. Ejaculation can be a visual representation of the measure of the man.
Synonyms: blowing a load
busting
busting a nut
creaming
cumming
ejaculation
exploding
jizzing
nutting
skeet
spewing
splooge
unloading
Related words: ejaculate
ejaculator
ejaculatory
eject
ejection
Derived words: anejaculation
delayed ejaculation
dysejaculation
ejaculation praecox
electroejaculation
female ejaculation
intravaginal ejaculation latency time
premature ejaculation
retrograde ejaculation
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