inoculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɒkjuleɪt/
ipa: /ɪˈnɑːkjuleɪt/
Forms: form: inoculates
form: inoculating
form: inoculated
form: inoculated
form: innoculate
Etymology: First attested in c. 1440; inherited from Middle English inoculaten (“to graft”), from Latin inoculātus, perfect passive participle of inoculō (“to ingraft an eye or bud of one plant into (another), implant”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + oculus (“an eye”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: But you would not willingly thus give up the Cause; therefore endeavour to draw others into your Assistance, and venture to assert, that by the Account Dr. Nettleton gives, as also by the best Observation upon those who have been Inoculated in this City, scarcely a fourth part of them have had a true and genuine Small Pox.
ref: 1722, John Crawford, The Case of Inoculating the Small-pox Consider'd: And Its Advantages Asserted; in a Review of Dr. Wagstaffe's Letter. Wherein Every Thing that Author Has Advanced Against It, is Fully Confuted: and Inoculation Proved a Safe, Beneficial, and Laudable Practice.:
text: The sense that it takes outrageous fortune to get inoculated echoes here in the Bay Area, where pharmacies have canceled flu-shot clinics, doctors turn away pleading patients and health officials are reduced to telling panicked callers that they should practice good personal hygiene.
ref: 2004 October 29, Marco R. Della Cava, “Vaccine shortage pricks tempers”, in Statesman Journal, volume 152, number 214, Salem, OR, page 2A:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: immunize
word: vaccinate
word: vaccine
glosses: To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease.
glosses: To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.
examples: text: The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.
synonyms: spike
glosses: To add one substance to another.
examples: text: to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another
text: to inoculate a tree
text: And in Aprill figtreen inoculate
ref: c. 1420, anonymous author, edited by Barton Lodge, On husbondrie, Published for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., translation of original by Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius, published 1872:
glosses: To graft by inserting buds.
examples: text: to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity
text: For vertue cannot ſo innocculate our old ſtocke, but we ſhall relliſh of it.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 265, line 118:
text: The Church tries to inoculate humanity with the imaginary goodness drawn down from a fabulous heaven, and from a priest-manufactured God.
ref: 1860, John Watts, The Christian Doctrine of Man's Depravity Refuted, Watts & Company, page 14:
synonyms: imbue
implant
glosses: To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles).
Derived terms: agroinoculate
agroinoculated
autoinoculate
coinoculate
inoculable
inoculee
inoculent
noninoculated
preinoculate
reinoculate
subinoculate
uninoculated
Related terms: inoculant
inoculation
inoculative
inoculator
inoculum
immunize
vaccinate