vacciolation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Innoculation with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to provide immunity from smallpox.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I presume the author means by 'after vaccination,' what I should express by after insertion of vacciolous matter, or after the attempt to vacciolate; and yet, when he mentions that zealots on one side have called the eruptions after it by one name, and those on the other by another; I am at a loss to comprehend him; because, if it were only after the attempt, the advocates of vacciolation would have no cause of surprize or disappointment in finding small-pox; the opponents no triumph."
- "(see title)"
- "In the year 1801, a gentleman inoculated his own two boys and two of his servants with vacciolous matter, that was sent by Dr. Pearson; on the eighth, tenth, and twelfth days I Saw their arms, and was well satisfied that vacciolation had taken place."
- "In 1802 he set up as a vaccinator at the house of a Friend, Joseph Fox, a dentist in Lombard Street, and shortly afterwards, chiefly through the interest of Friends, he was appointed resident inoculator to the Royal Jennerian Society, with a salary of £200 a year, coal and candles, and liberty to take fees for private " vacciolation"."