villicate

present singular third person villicates · participle present villicating · participle past villicated · past villicated

1. obsoleteTo do damage (to).

   Thro' all my inmost nerves, like lightning, darts Her baleful shafts, and kills without a wound : With tort'ring rack thrice villicates my foe, With hideous accent thrice I scream, and feel Her whole divinity enrag'd within.

   1756, “The Gout”, in The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England), volume 26, page 584

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   But our Baths now inflame, villicate and distress ; and the Air which we draw, is a Mixture of Air and Water, disturbs the whole Body, tosses and displaces every Atom, till we quench the fiery Particles, and allay their Heat.

   1684–1685, Plutarch, translated by Matthew Morgan et al., Plutarch's Morals - Volume 3, John Gellibrand, translation of original in Ancient Greek, page 460

   Now, that the Poison cannot be attributed to the Resin it contains, as this Author asserts throughout his Treatise, appears to me manifest; for upon an Analysis, the Power of Action consists in a volatile Salt, minutely blended with a corrosive Oil; which being expanded over the whole Stomach, villicates and inflames the nervous Membrane thereof, communicating her Affects to the Brain, even to the Destruction of Life ; unless overcome by Art.

   1763, An Essay on the Effects of Opium. Considered as a poison, page 31