vellicative

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adjective

Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.

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Meanings

adjectivevellicative (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCausing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.

    There is sometimes a peculiar sensibility in the teeth or their sheaths that induces a kind of vibratory pain, in which they colloquially said to be set on edge; and that in two ways, as follows: From jarring noises. From vellicative or acrid substances.

    1829, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, Volume 1

Origin

From vellicate + -ive.

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APA

vellicative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vellicative

MLA

“vellicative.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vellicative. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vellicative,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vellicative.

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