[f. ppl. stem of L. formīcāre: see FORMICANT.] intr. To crawl like ants; transf. to swarm with moving beings. Hence Formicating ppl. a. = FORMICANT.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 180. A languid, unequal, or formicating Pulse.
1854. Lowell, Jrnl. Italy, Prose Wks. 1890, I. 165. Outside the gate is an open space, which formicated with peasantry in every variety of costume that was not Parisian.
