Meaning of villicate | Babel Free

Definitions

To do damage (to).

obsolete

Examples

“But our Baths now inflame, villicate and distress ; and the Air which we draw⟳, is a Mixture of Air and Water, disturbs the whole Body, tosses and displaces every Atom, till we quench the fiery Particles, and allay their Heat.”

“Thro' all my inmost nerves, like⟳ lightning, darts Her baleful shafts, and kills without a wound : With tort'ring rack thrice villicates my foe, With hideous accent thrice I scream⟳, and feel⟳ Her whole divinity enrag'd within.”

“Now, that the Poison cannot be attributed to the Resin it contains, as this Author asserts throughout his Treatise, appears to me manifest; for upon an Analysis, the Power of Action consists in a volatile Salt, minutely blended with a corrosive Oil; which being expanded over the whole Stomach, villicates and inflames the nervous Membrane thereof, communicating her Affects to the Brain, even to the Destruction of Life ; unless overcome⟳ by Art.”

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