Vellicate vs Vellicated - What's the difference?
vellicate | vellicated |
To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
* Roald Dahl, The Way Up to Heaven
to irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.
To pinch.
To cause to twitch.
* Arbuthnot
(vellicate)
To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
* Roald Dahl, The Way Up to Heaven
to irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.
To pinch.
To cause to twitch.
* Arbuthnot
As verbs the difference between vellicate and vellicated
is that vellicate is to touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements while vellicated is past tense of vellicate.vellicate
English
Verb
(vellicat)- It was nothing much - just a tiny vellicating muscle in the corner of the left eye
- Smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth.
- Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous.
See also
* tickle * titillate ----vellicated
English
Verb
(head)vellicate
English
Verb
(vellicat)- It was nothing much - just a tiny vellicating muscle in the corner of the left eye
- Smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth.
- Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous.