Jactitation

jactitation
    n 1: speaking of yourself in superlatives [syn: {boast},
         {boasting}, {self-praise}, {jactitation}]
    2: (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false
       claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law)
    3: (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually
       by a person with a severe illness [syn: {jactitation},
       {jactation}]
    

Jactitation \Jac"ti*ta"tion\, n. [L. jactitare to utter in
   public, from jactare. See {Jactancy}.]
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   1. (Law) Vain boasting or assertions repeated to the
      prejudice of another's right; false claim. --Mozley & W.
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   2. (Med.) A frequent tossing or moving of the body;
      restlessness, as in delirium. --Dunglison.
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   {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.
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JACTITATION. OF MARRIAGE, Eng. eccl. law. The boasting by an individual that 
he or she has married another, from which it may happen that they will 
acquire the reputation of being married to each other. 
     2. The ecclesiastical courts may in such cases entertain a libel by the 
party injured; and, on proof of the facts, enjoin the wrong-doer to 
perpetual silence; and, as a punishment, make him pay the costs. 3 Bl. Com. 
93; 2 Hagg. Cons. R. 423 Id. 285; 2 Chit. Pr. 459. 
    

45 Moby Thesaurus words for "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