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Vellicative

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching. not-comparable

    "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."

Etymology

From vellicate + -ive.

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