Vĕs'ĭ-cāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. VESICATED; p. pr. & vb. n. VESICATING.] [N. Lat. vesicare, vesicatum, from Lat. vesica, a bladder, blister; It. vesicare.] To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister; as, to vesicate the external parts of wounds. [Rare.] Wiseman.