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prettygoodwordvellicate (VEL-ih-kayt) - v.t., to nip, pinch, pluck, or otherwise cause to twitch. v.i., to twitch.
Not a common one today, but in use in the 17th and 18th centuries as a medical term -- borrowed around 1600 from Latin vellicātus, the past participle of vellicāre, the frequentive of vellere, to pull, twitch.
---L.
Not a common one today, but in use in the 17th and 18th centuries as a medical term -- borrowed around 1600 from Latin vellicātus, the past participle of vellicāre, the frequentive of vellere, to pull, twitch.
---L.
