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velliˈcation Now rare or Obs.
[ad. L. vellicātio, noun of action f. vellicāre to vellicate. Cf. older F. vellication (Cotgr.), It. vellicazione, Sp. velicacion, Pg. vellicação.]
1. The action or process of pulling or twitching; irritation or stimulation by means of small or sharp points; titillation or tickling.
1623Cockeram i, Vellication, plucking. 1626Bacon Sylva §37 Therfore we see that almost all Purgers have a kind of Twiching and vellication. 1655Culpepper, etc. Riverius vi. i. 130 The Nerve and Membrane in the hole of the Tooth..which doth..suffer distension and vellication. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xlv. (1694) 371 Is it not daily seen how School-masters..shake the Heads of their Disciples.. that, by this Erection, Vellication, stretching and pulling their Ears..they may stir them up? 1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 177 The Vellication or Irritation of the Fibres and Membranes. 1794–6E. Darwin Zoon. (1801) I. 281 Here the pleasurable idea of playfulness coincides with the vellication. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 547 The vellication of a hair-brush contrived for the purpose. Ibid. IV. 690 The best artificial means of obtaining so salutary an action is by a free and laborious process of friction, vellication or shampooing.
2. An instance or occasion of this; also, a twitching or convulsive movement, esp. of a muscle or other part of the body.
1665Collection Plague Pieces (1721) 21 There happens a Vellication of the nervous Parts. 1686Plot Staffordsh. 302 Severe vellications in the Intestines by sharp humors. 1723Stukeley in Mem. (1882) I. 69 After some vellications and preludes the Gout seiz'd upon my right foot. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 67 Sharp uneasy vellications of the skin. 1783Johnson Lett. (1788) II. 339 These vellications of my breast shorten my breath.
transf.1781Johnson Prayers & Medit. (1817) 193 At night, I had some mental vellications, or revulsions. |