ETYMOLOGY
from French jectigation (‘wagging, shrugging’ (Cotgrave)),
from medieval Latin jectigare, from jact-, ject-, ppl. stem of Latin jacere (to throw)
EXAMPLE
“…both Men and Women seemed to Prophetize and Vaticinate, because of an affected kind of wagging of the Head, shrugging of the Shoulders, and Jectigation of the whole Body, which they used then most punctually…”
From: The Third Book of the Heroick Deeds and Sayings of the Good Pantagruel
By François Rabelais
Translated by Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, 1693
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