vellicative

English

Etymology

vellicate +‎ -ive

Adjective

vellicative (not comparable)

1. Causing vellication; provoking irritation or twitching.
   • 1829, John Mason Good, The Study of Medicine, Volume 1:

     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.