单词 | vellication |
释义 | vellicationn. Now rare or Obsolete. 1. The action or process of pulling or twitching; irritation or stimulation by means of small or sharp points; titillation or tickling. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > sensation of being tickled > tickling > [noun] kittlingc1000 tickling1423 titillation1615 vellication1623 tickle1801 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > irritation proritation1615 vellication1623 irritation1686 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Vellication, plucking. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §37 Therfore we see that almost all Purgers have a kind of Twiching and vellication. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick vi. i. 130 The Nerve and Membrane in the hole of the Tooth..which doth..suffer distension and vellication. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xlv. 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? 1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 177 The Vellication or Irritation of the Fibres and Membranes. 1794–6 E. Darwin Zoonomia (1801) I. 281 Here the pleasurable idea of playfulness coincides with the vellication. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 478 The vellication of a hair-brush contrived for the purpose. 1825 J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 2) IV. 687 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. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [noun] > irritation > instance of vellication1665 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders affecting muscles > [noun] > spasm or cramp > type of spasm > tic or twitch spasm1477 vellication1665 subsultus1696 tic douloureux1800 tic1822 jerking1827 live blood1834 nervous tic1858 jactitation1861 habit spasm1888 myokymia1901 fasciculation1938 1665 Collection Plague Pieces (1721) 21 There happens a Vellication of the nervous Parts. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 302 Severe vellications in the Intestines by sharp humors. 1723 in W. C. Lukis Family Mem. W. Stukeley (1882) I. 69 After some vellications and preludes the Gout seiz'd upon my right foot. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 67 Sharp uneasy vellications of the skin. 1783 S. Johnson Let. 13 Dec. (1994) IV. 259 These vellications of my breast shorten my breath. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1623 |
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