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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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.