jactitation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

JAC'TITATION, noun [Latin jactito, jacto. It ought rather to be jactation, Latin jactatio.] 1. A tossing of the body; restlessness. 2. A term in the canon law for a false pretension to marriage; vain boasting.
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