Few writers hesitate to use either in what is called a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede.
Latham.
Either was formerly sometimes used without any correlation, and where we should now use or.
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs?
James iii. 12.
E*jac"u*late (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ejaculated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ejaculating.] [L. ejaculatus, p. p. of ejaculari to throw out; e out + ejaculari to throw, fr. jaculum javelin, dart, fr. jacere to throw. See Eject.] 1. To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject. [Archaic or Technical]
Its active rays ejaculated thence.
Blackmore.
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2. To throw out, as an exclamation; to utter by a brief and sudden impulse; as, to ejaculate a prayer.
E*jac"u*late (?), v. i. To utter ejaculations; to make short and hasty exclamations. [R.] "Ejaculating to himself." Sir W. Scott.
E*jac`u*la"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. éjaculation.] 1. The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. [Archaic or Technical] "An ejaculation or irradiation of the eye." Bacon.
2. The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered.
In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing.
Jer. Taylor.