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单词 vellicate
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vellicatev.

Forms: Also 1600s vellicat.
Etymology: < Latin vellicāt-, participial stem of vellicāre, frequentative of vellĕre to pull, pluck, twitch, etc. Compare Spanish velicar, Portuguese vellicar.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈvellicate.
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.
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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.
absolute.1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §61 The æthereal oils being deprived of the acid spirit in distillation, which, vellicating and contracting as a stimulus, might have proved a counterpoise to the excessive lubricating..qualities of the oil.
b. Of persons: To tickle or titillate.
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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.
2. figurative. To carp at; to criticize adversely. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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