vellicative

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English

Etymology

From vellicate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

vellicative (not comparable)

  1. Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.
    • 1829, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, Volume 1:
      There is sometimes a peculiar sensibility in the teeth or their sheaths that induces a kind of vibratory pain, in which they colloquially said to be set on edge; and that in two ways, as follows:
         From jarring noises.
         From vellicative or acrid substances.