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Definition of Titillate

1. Verb. Touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements. "Did he titillate his foot? "

2. Verb. Excite pleasurably or erotically. "The good news will titillate her"; "A titillating story appeared in the usually conservative magazine"

Definition of Titillate

1. v. t. & i. To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather.

Definition of Titillate

1. Verb. To stimulate or excite pleasantly ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Titillate

1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Titillate

tithings tithly tithonia tithonias tithonic tithonicity tithonographic tithonometer tithonometers tithymal

tithymals titi titi family titi monkey titians titillate (current term) titillated titillates titillating titillatingly

titillations titillative titin titipounamu titis titivate titivated titivates titivating

Literary usage of Titillate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary of Obscure Words and Phrases in the Writings of Shakspeare and by Charles Mackay (1887)
"Mr. Stormonth in his Dictionary derives tickle from titillate, to touch the skin lightly with the fingers, ... he uses the word in the sense of titillate ..."

2. The Mysteries of Opium Reveal'd by John Jones (1701)
"... and finely titillate itie Membranes, and Spiritui»»/»»; therefore to make them highly and charmingly ..."

3. Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg, George Woolworth Colton (1918)
"What kinds of unclean things there are that titillate the bodily fibres of such persons it is granted to every one after death to know in the spiritual ..."

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