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1620 T. Venner Via Recta vi. 92 It..exciteth the appetite, by corrugating the mouth of the stomacke, and titillating the pallate.

1663 E. Waterhouse Fortescutus Illustratus xxxix. 469 Brutish sensuality, which titillated the concupiscence to acts of inordinacy.

1706 S. Centlivre Love at Venture i. 9 The elegance of my Fabrick, has Titulated the Imagination of many a fine Lady.

1779 V. Knox Ess. II. xxx. 293 That which titillates the ear, is not always the best calculated to affect the heart.

1829 T. B. Macaulay Utilitarian Logic & Politics in Edinb. Rev. Mar. 166 The greater part even of what is spent on his kitchen and his cellar, goes not to titillate his palate, but to keep up his character for hospitality.

1840 G. Darley in Wks. of Beaumont & Fletcher I. Introd. p. xxix Fletcher's liveliness, bustle, his easy-flowing language..are sure to titillate a mixed audience.

1882 J. Parker Apostolic Life I. 74 Your fancy has been titillated.

1904 E. Wharton Descent of Man vii. 234 The Bishop deliciously titillated the curiosity of his flock by circling ever closer about the interesting secret.

1974 R. A. Caro Power Broker vii. xlvii. 1102 A scene that may not have titillated the sophisticated taste of New York Intelligentsia but that would have thrilled the general public.

2016 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 May Vin ordinaire and menus du jour that titillated palates grown stale on bland and rationed British fare.

1921 Country Life Mar. 158/1 (advt.) There is nothing sensational or shocking or off-color about the novel. There is no problem to agonize over, no characters or situations to titillate the prurient.

1927 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 262/2 Due to censorship, the average present-day motion-picture represents a tacit conspiracy on the part of the public and the producers to agree that all ends well if it ends in matrimony. In between you can titillate all you want.

1988 E. Segal Doctors xxxvi. 553 She's a classic hysteric, who gets frightened when she titillates a man and then runs away.

2004 J. Guy My Heart is my Own xxiv. 385 Everything seemed to connect in a steamy story of sex and violence, adultery and murder, designed to titillate as well as to shock.

2009 Independent 30 May (Mag.) 16/3 A skilled burlesque dancer titillates her audience as much through a single wink or a nod, as with the flash of her thigh.

1747 tr. J. Lommius Medicinal Observ. ii. 69 The Uvula sometimes hangs down from the Extremity of the Palate, and is convey'd into the Fauces and superior Part of the Gullet, on which Occasion it titillates these Parts and induces a Dread of Suffocation.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) x. 97 The landlady..proceeded to vinegar the forehead, beat the hands, titillate the nose..of the spinster aunt.

1878 O. W. Holmes John Lothrop Motley: Mem. xviii. 138 The feathered end of his shaft titillates harmlessly enough.

1915 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 140 When this is titillated by the antennae of an ant, it opens.

2009 P. Stewart tr. A. Poussin & S. Poussin Afr. Trek II. xvii. 244 An enormous yellow scorpion..crawls between our legs... When I titillate it with a stick, it plays dead.

1871 Trans. Wisconsin State Med. Soc. 5 109 She made a clean breast of the whole matter, attributing it all to the amorous passions of her husband, who, in order to engender a like desire in her, would excite her genital organs, I presume by titillating her clitoris.

1880 ‘Lady Pokingham’ in Pearl Apr. 123 I took that long prick in my hands,..whilst I just titillated the ruby head with my tongue.

1955 L. Langstroth Struct. of Ego viii. 129 Her husband had therefore to titillate her clitoris to give her sexual satisfaction.

2012 P. A. Mittal Arranged Love 112 His tongue softly titillating my earlobes.