Villicate

Quick meaning: Villicate is a verb meaning (obsolete) To do damage (to).

Meaning

(obsolete) To do damage (to).

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• villicates
• villicating
• villicated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include viciate, invile, viliorate, damnify, vilipend, vulnerate.

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