a. [f. as EJACULATE + -IVE.] a. Of the nature of an ejaculation. † b. Pertaining to the emission of occult influence (obs.).
1660. Z. Crofton, Fasten. St. Peter’s Fetters, 58. [It] can be no warrant for such premeditated, ejaculative expressions, to be prescribed in set and publick prayer.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, I. xx. (1632), 44. The Tortoises and the Estriges hatch their egges with their looks only, a signe that they have some ejaculative vertue.
1841. Disraeli, Amen. Lit. (1859), I. 35. An Anglo-Saxon poem has the appearance of a collection of short hints … curt and ejaculative.
