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irritative, a.|ˈɪrɪteɪtɪv|
[f. as irritate v.1 + -ive.]
1. Having the quality of stirring up or exciting to action; now in Physiol. or Biol. Having the property of stimulating to vital action, e.g. to sensuous perception, muscular contraction, etc.
1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. xiii. 65 Invested with Power, not Illuminative..but Irritative also. 1794E. Darwin Zoon. I. xx. §7. 234 The irritative ideas of objects..are perpetually present to our sense of Sight. 1796Ibid. II. 678 Those things, which increase the exertions of all the irritative motions, are termed incitantia. 1822Good Study Med. (1834) III. 401 Hysteria is a disease of the irritative fibres, hypochondrias of the sentient.
2. Having the quality of causing mental irritation; tending to irritate; annoying, irritating.
1878Fraser's Mag. XVIII. 168 Let us put away utterly all irritative thoughts. 1881Mrs. C. Praed Policy & P. II. 208 Tones which were specially irritative to Mr. Longleat's temper.
3. Path. Characterized by or accompanied with irritation of the system or of some organ.
1807Med. Jrnl. XVII. 7 He laboured under a considerable degree of irritative fever. 1873T. H. Green Introd. Pathol. (ed. 2) 139 Irritative conditions of the bone and periosteum are often attended by a large formation of new bone. 1888Fagge & Pye-Smith Princ. Med. (ed. 2) I. 70 The immediate effect of wounds in producing what was called irritative fever was confounded with the later appearance of pyæmia. |