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jak-tuh-TAY-shuhn
noun
restlessness; twitching; an untrue claim at the expense of someone else
1759 The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman—It has not only been a question, Captain Shandy, amongst the best lawyers and civilians in this land, continued Kysarcius, 'Whether the mother be of kin to her child,'—but, after much dispassionate enquiry and jactitation of the arguments on all sides—it has been adjudged for the negative—namely, 'That the mother is not of kin to her child.'1995The Commodore'Well, sir, this is the second day of the first stadium, and we may expect a diminution of the animal heat—increasing restlessness and jactitation.Labels: Laurence Sterne, Patrick O'Brian
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