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Webster 1828 Edition


Vaccinate

VAC'CINATE

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Verb.
T.
[L. vacca, a cow.] To inoculate with the cow-pox, or a virus originally taken from cows, called vaccine matter.

Definition 2024


vaccinate

vaccinate

English

Verb

vaccinate (third-person singular simple present vaccinates, present participle vaccinating, simple past and past participle vaccinated)

  1. Treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.
    • 1933, Groucho Marx, Duck Soup (movie)
      You haven't stopped talking since I came here! You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!

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Italian

Verb

vaccinate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of vaccinare
  2. second-person plural imperative of vaccinare
  3. feminine plural of vaccinato

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Latin

Adjective

vaccīnate

  1. vocative masculine singular of vaccīnatus