单词 | vellicate |
释义 | vellicatev. Now rare or Obsolete. 1. a. transitive. Of things: To act upon or affect so as to irritate; esp. to pluck, nip, pinch, or tear (a part of the body) by means of small or sharp points.Chiefly in old medical use with reference to the action of medicaments, sharp or acrid substances, etc., on the tissues of the body. Frequently in the 17th and 18th centuries. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > irritate anger?a1425 ranklec1450 exasperate1552 prorite1574 annoy1576 vellicate1604 proritate1620 irritate1674 aggravate1835 1604 F. Herring Modest Def. Caueat 16 They [i.e. strong medicines] doe forcibly vellicat, offend and violat her [Nature]. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 27 Those corrosive fretting, pontick, and acid juyces, which vellicate and prick the nerves. 1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature 223 The Fibres..of the Stomach, Bowels, and other Parts, being..Vellicated by the Plenty or Acrimony of the Peccant Matter. 1709 Brit. Apollo 9–11 Mar. Some sharp Humor on that part..may vellicate and twitch it. 1783 C. Bryant Flora Diætetica 168 A hairy, bristly substance, which..will, by pricking and vellicating the coats of stomach and bowels, many times occasion sickness. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 56 The same effect is produced whenever the teeth are vellicated by smooth substances, as a piece of silk or velvet. b. Of persons: To tickle or titillate. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > sensation of being tickled > tickling > [verb (transitive)] kittlec1000 ticklec1450 titillate1747 vellicate1756 tiddle1866 goose1879 1756 Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 242 I vellicated the pericranium with the end of a knife. a1778 C. Darwin Experiments (1780) 94 Thus, if you vellicate the throat with a feather, nausea is produced. 1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) I. 281 So when children expect to be tickled in play..by gently vellicating the soles of their feet, laughter is most vehemently excited. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > captiously upbraidc1290 bite1330 to gnap at1533 carp1550 cavil1581 carp1587 to pick at ——1603 to pick a hole (also holes) in1614 yark1621 vellicate1633 to peck at1641 snob1654 ploat1757 to get at ——1803 crab1819 to pick up1846 knock1892 snark1904 kvetchc1950 to pick nits1978 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 1) 387 These are they that vellicate authoritie. 1662 J. Owen Animadversions Fiat Lux vi If any one..have a mind..to vellicate commonly received maxims. 1686 H. More Let. 22 Feb. in J. Norris Theory & Regulation Love (1688) 208 Reading the confirmation of your Hypothesis (which I took the boldness a little to vellicate). 3. intransitive. To twitch; to contract or move convulsively. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > sudden movement > make sudden movement [verb (intransitive)] > make spasmodic movement vellicate1670 spasm1900 1670 E. Maynwaring Vita Sana & Longa (new ed.) xiii. 120 Fast not, but satisfie the Stomach when it vellicates and calls for meat. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Vellicate, to move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates. Derivatives ˈvellicating adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > [adjective] eileOE soreOE balefulc1200 carefulc1200 aching?c1225 pinefulc1225 sughendc1230 pininga1250 stinginga1250 toughc1275 deringa1325 unsetec1325 unwinc1330 throlya1375 encumbrousc1384 grievable1390 painful1395 plaintfula1400 sweamlya1400 swemandc1400 temptingc1400 importunea1425 sweamfulc1430 penible?a1439 discomfortingc1450 grievingc1450 remordingc1450 sorousc1503 badc1530 paining1532 raw1548 nippingc1550 smartful1556 pinching1563 grievesome1568 griping1568 afflictive1576 pressing1591 boisterous1599 heartstruck1608 carkingc1620 gravaminous1659 vellicating1669 weary1785 traumatizing1970 gut-wrenching1972 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > irritating grating1563 irritatorya1656 exasperatinga1665 vellicating1669 vellicative1822 amyctic1853 orticant1939 1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 81 Many a pregnant spirit is suffocated in the streight enclosures of a confining vellicating fortune. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 67 It washes the vellicating Humours from the original of the Nerves. 1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. ii. 365 The increased Flux of Tears, excited by the vellicating Body. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle I. xiv. 104 Lubricating injections to defend the coats of the stomach..from the vellicating particles. 1768 Elaboratory 218 A vellicating and pungent action. 1853 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 48 Amycticus,..irritating; vellicating. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1604 |
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