TITILLATE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Titillate

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Titillate v. t. & v. i. (past & past part. titillated; pres. part. titillating)

To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather. "The pungent grains of titillating dust."

To arouse an agreeable sensation in; as, to titillate one's imagination; to titillate one's audience; to titillate the senses.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Titillate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Thoreau's half-truths titillate and amuse the mind. We do not nod over his page. We enjoy his art while experiencing an undercurrent of protest against his unfairness. We could have wished him to have shown himself in his writings as somewhat sweeter and more tolerant toward the rest of the world, broader in outlook, and more ...

— The Last Harvest • John Burroughs

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... overemphasized by our civilization on its distracting side, its spicy and condimental values, and underemphasized so far as its realities go. The aim seems to be to titillate sex feeling constantly, and a precocious acquaintance with this form of stimulation is the lot of most city children. Such things would have no serious results to the housewife if they did not arouse expectations that marriage does not fulfill at all. This is the great harm of prurient ...

— The Nervous Housewife • Abraham Myerson

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... things of the church and of inveighing against God. The fountainhead of those enjoyments is the love of ruling from self-love. They come of lusts which obsess the interiors of the mind, from these flow into the body, and excite uncleannesses there which titillate the fibers. The physical pleasure springs from the pleasure which ...

— Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence • Emanuel Swedenborg

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Words linked to "Titillate" : excite, stimulate, stir, delight, vellicate