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- touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
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irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
the pain is as if sharp points pinch your back
smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth
How To Use vellicate In A Sentence
- smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth
- Some think these almonds have a penetrating, abstersive quality, are able to cleanse the face, and clear it from the common freckles; and therefore, when they are eaten, by their bitterness vellicate and fret the pores, and by that means draw down the ascending vapors from the head. Symposiacs
- Of wounds, indeed, it is rightly and truly said, Nemo repente fuit turpissimus. 15 I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge; and the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture of the vulnus or wound. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling