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▪ I. urticate, v.|ˈɜːtɪkeɪt|
[a. med.L. urtīcāt-, ppl. stem of urtīcāre (Dief.), f. L. ūrtīca urtica.]
1. intr. To sting, as or like a nettle; to affect with a tingling pain or stinging sensation.
1843[see urticating ppl. a.]. 1855Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. (ed. 2) ix. 167 An oval capsule from which a stiff bristle-like spine protrudes: these do not urticate. 1882Sala Amer. Revis. I. xix. 271 The Brush-fiend..not only urticates, he hurts. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 469 Various ‘rashes’..which may urticate or vesicate.
2. trans. To flog with fresh stinging-nettles; also gen., to flagellate, whip.
1861Illustr. Lond. News 5 Jan. 10/1 Those who are partial..to being urticated with laurel rods. 1873M. Collins Miranda III. 206 The one at the end of it shall be urticated... I mean that..the worst man on the list shall be flogged with sting-nettles.
b. To produce urtication in or on (a part of the body, etc.); to affect with a stinging pain.
1862Temple Bar Mag. VI. 335 Do I urticate my back hair with two brushes? 1882Sala Amer. Revis. I. xix. 270 With an ordinary implement made of bristles..he brushes you ‘off’; and while he urticates you he utters a low crooning murmur. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 480 That scratching urticates the lesions is undoubted.
3. To irritate to indignation, etc.; to goad, nettle.
1873M. Collins Squire Silchester II. xvi. 195 Urticated to unwonted indignation, it is thought he swore—slightly.
Hence ˈurticating ppl. a., causing or producing urtication.
1843Owen Lect. Compar. Anat. ix. 102 This stinging or urticating property..procured for the ‘Radiares Mollasses’ of Lamarck the name of Acalephæ. 1855Ibid. (ed. 2) 176 The urticating tentacles. 1861Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. iv. i. 235 The ancients employed urticating caterpillars in the formation of Sinapisms. 1877Nature 4 Oct. 475/1 Urticating Organs of Planarian Worms.
Add: ˈurticated ppl. a. = urticate a.
1977Lancet 27 Aug. 461/1 There were three areas of urticated erythema with vesicle formation where his body had been in contact with the floor.
▪ II. ˈurticate, a.
[ad. med.L. ūrtīcāt-us: see prec.]
Presenting the appearance characteristic of urticaria.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 469 The macular, urticate, centrifugally enlarging, and figured eruptions so commonly seen after poisoning by tinned food. |