different between vellicative vs vellicate

English

Etymology

vellicate +? -ive

Adjective

vellicative (not comparable)

1. Having the power of vellicating, plucking, or twitching; causing vellication.

English

Etymology

From Latin vellicatus, past participle of vellicare (“to twitch”). Cognate with Spanish pellizcar (“to pinch”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?l?ke?t/

Verb

vellicate (third-person singular simple present vellicates, present participle vellicating, simple past and past participle vellicated)

1. To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
   • 1954,Roald Dahl, The Way Up to Heaven

     It was nothing much – just a tiny vellicating muscle in the corner of the left eye […]

2. to irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.

3. To pinch.
4. To cause to twitch.
   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• tickle
• titillate

Anagrams

• allective

Italian

Verb

vellicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of vellicare
2. second-person plural imperative of vellicare

Participle

vellicate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of vellicare

Latin

Verb

vellic?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of vellic?