IRRITATION Copy link • IRRITATIONAs state, ira, etc. [Vid: ANGER.] His irritation is subsiding, ira discedit, defervescit, deflagrat: in a moment of irritation, ira victus; or only per iram; ira. As act (1) of making angry, irritatio animi alicujus (the exciting or irritating anybody’s mind), or by circumlocution with verbs under IRRITATE. (2) As act of physically exciting anything (e.g., wounds, nerves, etc.), inflammatio (of a wound: it is not found in this sense, but inflammare is, and inflammatio is used by Cic.).