vellication
- a word derived from vellicate.
Example Sentences
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At first vellication is painful but the skin becomes used to it.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
In the case of the axilla-pile, vellication is the popular process: see vol. ix.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Here the pleasureable idea of playfulness coincides with the vellication; and there is no voluntary exertion used to diminish the sensation, as there would be, if a child should endeavour to tickle himself.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus
