The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inoculate \In*oc"u*late\, v. 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.]
To bud; to insert, or graft, as the bud of a tree or plant in another tree or plant.
To insert a foreign bud into; as, to inoculate a tree.
(Med.) To communicate a disease to (a person) by inserting infectious matter in the skin or flesh, especially as a means of inducing immunological resistance to that or related diseases; as, to inoculate a person with the virus of smallpox, rabies, etc. See Vaccinate.
Fig.: To introduce into the mind; -- used especially of harmful ideas or principles; to imbue; as, to inoculate one with treason or infidelity.
(Microbiology) To introduce microorganisms into (a growth medium), to cause the growth and multiplication of the microorganisms; as, to inoculate a fermentation vat with an actinomycete culture in order to produce streptomycin.
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vb. (en-past of: inoculate)
Usage examples of "inoculated".
And now, sorry things began to happen to his inoculated guinea-pigs and rabbits.
He took two apes, inoculated them with the syphilitic virus fresh from a man, and then, one hour later, he rubbed the grayish ointment into that scratched spot on one of his apes.
The sheriffs had got inoculated and they had that task force thing trying to round up cold-hearted killers loose.
Some rural urchins who had ambled back were inoculated and ready to prowl for zombies.
They said they have already come up with it, and we are gonna get inoculated again.
And when soil is once inoculated it remains so for a long time, even though the proper legume should not be grown again on the same soil.
However, there are good reasons for believing that with the introduction of hardy varieties and through the use of Northern grown seed, an inoculated soil, where inoculation may be necessary, that medium red clover will yet be grown over wide areas in all the provinces of Northwestern Canada, south of and including the Saskatchewan valley.
Much of the soil in Illinois, it is said, must first be inoculated with the bacteria proper to alfalfa before vigorous crops can be grown, and this is probably true of sections of Indiana soil.
Because of this, growers should be slow to conclude that alfalfa will not flourish on the soils on which they sow it until they have first tried to grow it on those soils that have been inoculated with the requisite alfalfa bacteria.
Isaac Smith, reporting that Abigail, acting on her own, had decided that she and the children must be inoculated for smallpox.
The ordeal of the patient, however, could be considerable, as Adams knew from all he had seen at the time he was inoculated, and largely because of various purges that were thought essential to recovery.
The majority of the delegates, believing that the Democratic party had been inoculated with the serum of reform, were ready for the sake of a principle to risk the destruction of the party they had labored so hard to build.
Apart from the small percentage who would develop the fullblown disease, everyone he inoculated would be contagious for at least a week, which meant they had to be kept in strict isolation.
Special Forces troops were inoculated to help promote blood clotting of large wounds.
In Mexico, many of the refugees from the central plains have not even been inoculated with the cure for the Moses virus: their family histories are of healthy daughters and miscarried sons.