vellicate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →vellico, vellicare, vellicavi, vellicatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
pinch, nip; criticize carpingly;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Mercator
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...vias, contemplent, conspiciant omnes, nutent, nictent, sibilent, vellicent, vocent, molesti sint; occentent ostium: impleantur elegeorum meae fores carbonibus..."Liber IV
Aulus Gellius
"...obtrectare. In quibus plura inscite aut maligne vellicant. Nonnulla tamen videri possunt non indigna reprehensione; quale illud..."