vellicate

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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.

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  1. To twitch; cause to twitch convulsively, as the muscles and nerves of animals. Convulsions arising from something vellicating a nerve. Arbuthnot.
  2. To move spasmodically; twitch, as a nerve.
  3. To carp or detract. Blount.

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  1. from Latin vellicatus, past participle of vellicare, pluck, twitch, from vellere, pluck, tear out.
 

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