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Meaning of vellicative | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

velloziaceous vellumlike vellumy velocardiofacial velocimetric velocious

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