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Webster 1913 Edition
Inoculate
In-oc′u-late
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Inoculated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Inoculating
.] [L.
inoculatus
, p. p. of inoculare
to ingraft; pref. in-
in, on + oculare
to furnish with eyes, fr. oculus
an eye, also, a bud. See Ocular
.] 1.
To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
2.
To insert a foreign bud into;
as, to
. inoculate
a tree4.
Fig.: To introduce into the mind; – used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue;
as, to
. inoculate
one with treason or infidelityIn-oc′u-late
,Verb.
I.
1.
To graft by inserting buds.
2.
To communicate disease by inoculation.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inoculate
INOC'ULATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To bud; to insert the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant, for the purpose of growth on the new stock. All sorts of stone fruit, apples,pears, &c. may be inoculated. We inoculate the stock with a foreign bud.2.
To communicate a disease to a person by inserting infectious matter in his skin or flesh; as, to inoculate a person with the matter of small pox or cow pox. When the latter disease is communicated, it is called vaccination.INOC'ULATE
,Verb.
I.
Definition 2024
inoculate
inoculate
English
Alternative forms
Verb
inoculate (third-person singular simple present inoculates, present participle inoculating, simple past and past participle inoculated)
- (transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease. [from a. 1722]
- 1722, John Crawford, The Case of Inoculating the Small-pox Consider'd: And Its Advantages Asserted; in a Review of Dr. Wagstaffe's Letter. Wherein Every Thing that Author Has Advanced Against It, is Fully Confuted: and Inoculation Proved a Safe, Beneficial, and Laudable Practice.:
- But you would not willingly thus give up the Cause; therefore endeavour to draw others into your Assistance, and venture to assert, that by the Account Dr. Nettleton gives, as also by the best Observation upon those who have been Inoculated in this City, scarcely a fourth part of them have had a true and genuine Small Pox.
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- (transitive, by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
- To add one substance to another; to spike.
- The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
- To graft by inserting buds. [from c. 1420]
- to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
- to inoculate a tree
- c. 1420, anonymous, Barton Lodge, editor, On husbondrie, translation of original by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, published 1872:
- And in Aprill figtreen inoculate
- (figuratively) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue. [from a. 1600]
- to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity
- 1599-1602, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, scene 1, line 118:
- virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it
Related terms
See also
Translations
to provide immunity
to add one substance to another
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External links
- inoculate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- inoculate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911