About The Word Jactitation

Bay Area Crosswords

Learn about the word Jactitation to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Jactitation definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

Jactitation

Jactitation Meaning & Definition
Jactitation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Jactitation?

[n] (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness
[n] a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)
[n] speaking of yourself in superlatives

Synonyms | Synonyms for Jactitation: boast | boasting | jactation | self-praise

Related Terms | Find terms related to Jactitation: ague | bluster | boast | boastfulness | boasting | bombast | brag | braggadocio | braggartism | bragging | bravado | bumpiness | chattering | chorea | cold shivers | conceit | fanfaronade | fits and starts | gasconade | gasconism | heroics | jactation | jerkiness | joltiness | palsy | quaking | quavering | quivering | rodomontade | shakes | shaking | shivering | shivers | shuddering | side | spasms | succussion | swagger | trembling | tremulousness | vanity | vaunt | vauntery | vaunting | vibration

See Also | bluster | brag | braggadocio | bragging | crow | crowing | lie | line-shooting | prevarication | restlessness | rhodomontade | rodomontade | self-assertion | speech act | uneasiness | vaporing | vaunt

Jactitation In Webster's Dictionary

\Jac"ti*ta"tion\, n. [L. jactitare to utter in public, from jactare. See {Jactancy}.] 1. (Law) Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another's right; false claim. --Mozley & W. 2. (Med.) A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium. --Dunglison. {Jactitation of marriage} (Eng. Eccl. Law), a giving out or boasting by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue. --Blackstone.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

  • Dreadful ‐ causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk";…
  • Fahrenheit scale ‐ a temperature scale that defines the freezing point of water…
  • Tetragrammaton ‐ four Hebrew letters (usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh)…
  • Research worker ‐ a scientist who devotes himself to…
  • Hamitic language ‐ a group of North African languages related…
  • Yellow lupine ‐ yellow-flowered European lupine cultivated…
  • Israeli ‐ a native or inhabitant of Israel [adj] of or relating to or characteristic…
  • Bird-scarer ‐ an effigy in the shape of a man to frighten birds away…
  • Smoothbore ‐ of a firearm; not having rifling or internal spiral grooves inside…
  • Affective disorder ‐ any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities…