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Vellicate   Listen
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Vellicate  v. t.  (past & past part. vellicated; pres. part. vellicating)  To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively. "Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous."



Vellicate  v. i.  To move spasmodically; to twitch; as, a nerve vellicates.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Vellicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... to post, keep between hawk and buzzard. agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap, flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle, disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate[obs3]. Adj. shaking &c. v.; agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory|; saltatoric[obs3]; quasative[obs3]; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory[obs3], convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter. Adv. by fits and starts; subsultorily| &c. adj[obs3].; per saltum[Lat]; ...
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