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Meanings of vellicate in English

Catalan
pessigollejar

Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.

        pessigollejar
        Portuguese
        pegar com pinça
        Spanish
        velicar

        Irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.

              pegar com pinça
              Usage of vellicate in English
              1
              Thus, if you vellicate the throat with a feather, nausea is produced; if you wound it with a penknife, pain is induced, but not sickness.
              Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
              Frequent collocations
              Translations for vellicate
              Vellicate through the time