vellicatingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

vellicating (comparative more vellicating, superlative most vellicating)

1. Causing vellication; irritating or tickling.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 14, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:

     After having examined the ſymptoms, he declared that the patient had be poiſoned with arſenic, and preſcribed oily draughts and lubricating injections, to defend the coats of the ſtomach and inteſtines from the vellicating particles of that pernicious mineral; at the ſame time hinting, with a look of infinite ſagacity, that it was not difficult to divine the whole myſtery.