vellicate

From Latin vellicatus, past participle of vellicare (“to twitch”).

vellicate (third-person singular simple present vellicates, present participle vellicating, simple past and past participle vellicated)

1. To touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements.
   • Roald Dahl, The Way Up to Heaven

     It was nothing much - just a tiny vellicating muscle in the corner of the left eye […]

2. to irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear.

   Smooth surfaces can vellicate the teeth.

3. To pinch.
4. To cause to twitch.
   • Arbuthnot

     Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in its extremity, are not very dangerous.

• tickle
• titillate

• allective

vellicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of vellicare
2. second-person plural imperative of vellicare

vellicate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of vellicare

vellicāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of vellicō