Jactitation: Definition and part of speech

Jactitation

  1. n. A frequent tossing or moving of the body; restlessness, as in delirium.
  2. n. Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the prejudice of another’s right; false claim.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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