Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Involving irritation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving to excite or irritate.
- Accompanied with or produced by irritation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Serving to excite or irritate; irritating.
- adj. Accompanied with, or produced by, increased action or irritation.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite
Examples
“This kind of connection we shall term irritative association, to distinguish it from sensitive and voluntary associations.”
“Those trains or tribes of associate motions, whose introductory link consists of an irritative motion, are termed irritative associations; as when the muscles of the eyelids close the eye in common nictitation.”
“In the first class of diseases two kinds of fevers were described, one from excess, and the other from defect of irritation; and were in consequence termed irritative, and inirritative fevers.”
“And by frequent repetitions of exhaustion by great stimulus, these vessels cease to acquire their whole natural quantity of sensorial power; as in the schirrous stomach, and schirrous liver, occasioned by the great and frequent stimulus of vinous spirit; which may properly be termed irritative paralysis of those parts of the system.”
“XXXII. and termed irritative fever, it frequently happens that pain is excited by the violence of the fibrous contractions; and other new motions are then superadded, in consequence of sensation, which we shall term febris sensitiva, or sensitive fever.”
“Hence the stomach continues torpid in respect to its motions, but accumulates its power of association; which is not excited into action by the defective motions of the spleen; this accumulation of the sensorial power of association now by its superabundance actuates the next link of associate motions, which consists of the heart and arteries, into greater energy of action than natural, and thus causes fever with strong pulse; which, as it was supposed to be most frequently excited by increase of irritation, is called irritative fever or synocha.”
“While the polypus, who is their companion in their former state of life, not being allowed to change his form and element, can only propagate like vegetable buds by the same kind of irritative motions, which produces the growth of his own body, without the seminal or amatorial propagation, which requires sensation; and which in gnats and tadpoles seems to require a change both of food and of respiration.”
“The single biggest mistake that the Soviets made, according to Ambassador Kabulov, was letting the Soviet military footprint become too large: "The more foreign troops you have roaming the country, the more the irritative allergy toward them is going to be provoked.”
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“The GAO report pdf identifies the main adverse health concerns from clothing treated with formaldehyde as a variety of irritative, allergenic and sensitization reactions on skin -- some of which can engage the immune system.”
The Huffington Post: Bill Chameides: The Wrinkle in No-Iron Shirts
“This acid, depending on concentration and duration of exposure, may produce a variety of topically irritative injuries.”
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