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vaccinate
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Word definitions for vaccinate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, "to inoculate with a vaccine," originally with cowpox for the purpose of procuring immunity from smallpox, back-formation from vaccination . Related: Vaccinated ; vaccinating .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A health spokesman stressed there had been no reported deaths - and said parents should continue having their children vaccinated. ▪ Anyone traveling to a country where exposure to the Hepatitis A virus is possible should be ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. Treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vaccinate \Vac"ci*nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vaccinated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Vaccinating .] [See Vaccine .] To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation; "We vaccinate against scarlet fever"; "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school" [syn: immunize , immunise , inoculate ]
Usage examples of vaccinate.
The CDC plan is basically quite simple: Identify those with smallpox, isolate them to keep them from infecting others, and vaccinate anyone with whom they may have come into contact.
In 1874 a law was established in Prussia that every child that had not already had small-pox must be vaccinated in the first year of its life, and every pupil in a private or public institution must be revaccinated during the year in which his or her twelfth birthday occurs.
Then they brought the cow in, and after she was tested and vaccinated Guthrie wrapped his arms around her head and pulled her head violently to one side, her neck stretching tight, her eyes wild and frantic, while Raymond fit the sharp ends of the dehorner over the malformed horn.
Foul ulcers appeared on various parts of the bodies of the vaccinated.
If the FN-17 worked, then Company would simply vaccinate their employees and all the potential vacationers and real estate agents and miners who could turn Jeep from a financial embarrassment to a reasonable investment.
They were quite surprised to find what a human old gentleman he was, and went back and told the others, that, instead of being a case of confluent sectarianism, as they supposed, the good old minister had been so well vaccinated with charitable virus that he was now a true, open-souled Christian of the mildest type.
They don't think about the castrating, dehorning, vaccinating, doctoring, and feeding--not to mention all the grief they give ya in between.
His wrangle with the Board of Education, when he had refused to have Pearl vaccinated at their request, still rankled.
Might not the two of them, born, baptized, vaccinated, educated as they were, have borne witness to the same identical development?
One advantage would be that by variolating these previously vaccinated people, their blood will be rich in antibodies to smallpox after the variolation.
The technology required to vaccinate or variolate the Grantville population is very minimal.