1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. xii, in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 193/2 Not without a certain irritancy and even spoken invective.

1849 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 16 754 The source of great irritancy and vexation to the Colonists.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 8/2 A superior altitude..adds an irritancy to the monition tendered.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. (1693) i. xiii. §14. 122 By payment at the Barr, it was allowed to be purged, even though the Party after the Irritancy got Possession.

1773 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. I. ii. v. §27 Where the irritant clause was conceived in these words, ‘That the feu-right should fall, if two years duty happened to run into a third’, which was long the usual style, the irritancy was not incurred by our older practice till the whole of the third year's duty was due.

1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) (at cited word) The irritancy of a right is its forfeiture in consequence of some neglect or contravention... A lease may be dissolved during its currency by the operation of a legal as well as of a conventional irritancy.

1880 J. Muirhead Inst. of Gaius & Rules of Ulpian Digest 613 Irritancy of a testament.—A testament was irritated when the testator suffered capitis deminutio.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Oct. 11/1 Guilty of that heinous Scotch crime known as ‘irritancy of the lease’.