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Meaning of vacciolation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

Innoculation with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to provide immunity from smallpox.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”
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“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".”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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