INOCULATE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Inoculate

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪnˈɑkjəlˌeɪt/ Listen

Inoculate

verb

(past & past part. inoculated; pres. part. inoculating)

Introduce an idea or attitude into the mind of.

Introduce a microorganism into.

Perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation. Synonyms: immunise, immunize, vaccinate. "The nurse vaccinated the children in the school"

Insert a bud for propagation.

Impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune.

See images of 'Inoculate'

Etymology of 'Inoculate'

Share |

"Inoculate" Quotes from Famous Books

... explanation struck home with a certain convincingness. The mere thought of disease-laden surroundings filled him with alarm. Could they have unwittingly wandered into a deserted pest-ship? A focus of death in these rotting seas? The very air he breathed, the wood he touched, might inoculate him with malignant germs. Then he began ...

— The Cruise of the Dry Dock • T. S. Stribling

... He offered to "inoculate" the others in the same way. They at first refused—Don Pablo among the rest—but after a day or two, when each of the party had met with several narrow escapes from vipers, coral snakes, and the much-dreaded "jararaca," Don Pablo thought it prudent that all should submit to the operation, and accordingly ...

— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid

... when we would remove our hats; they shave their heads and let the beard grow; they sleep in the day and sit up the greater portion of the night; they make windows in the roof instead of in the walls; they inoculate smallpox instead of vaccinating to prevent it; they travel by ...

— Across Coveted Lands - or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland • Arnold Henry Savage Landor

... that even if one does not die from the effects of their bites that the tarantula can inoculate a person with dancing poison," said ...

— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham

... every fact laid before him must be backed up with an adequate reason. What does a bad Sultan do, he wished to know. Harrington was puzzled. It seemed a pity to bring Bob into touch with the cruelties and pains of life. But on the other hand here was a chance to inoculate Bob at a very early age with a hatred for tyranny and oppression, and a love for the principles of representative government; and on the whole I am inclined to think Harrington did right. In any case Harrington told the boy that ...

— The Patient Observer - And His Friends • Simeon Strunsky

... finally be cleaner than it was before. In the same way doctors who are up-to-date (BURGE-LUBIN per cent of all the registered practitioners, and 20 per cent of the unregistered ones), when they want to rid you of a disease or a symptom, inoculate you with that disease or give you a drug that produces that symptom, in order to provoke you to resist it as the mud provokes the cat ...

— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw

... we learned that poor papa had Paramore's disease. But it was too late to inoculate papa. All they could do was to prolong his life for two years more by putting him on a strict diet. Poor old boy! they cut off his liquor; and he's not allowed to ...

— The Philanderer • George Bernard Shaw

... for the small-pox, and remaining in the town during their illness, and the impropriety of the surgeons encouraging such proceedings. Agreed that the surgeons be waited upon with a request that they will not in future inoculate any person in their own houses unless such person so inoculated be removed ...

— Fragments of Two Centuries - Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King • Alfred Kingston

Words linked to "Inoculate" : inoculator, inoculant, practice of medicine, inclose, inject, enclose, stick in, immunize, medicine, inoculation, propagate, impregnate, shoot, introduce, insert, inform, inoculating, seed, put in