Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who or a thing which inoculates; one who or that which propagates by inoculation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who inoculates; one who propagates plants or diseases by inoculation.
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- noun One who
inoculates .
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- noun a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus contrary to the insistence of some that religion is inherently divisive and harmful, this research suggests that early-life exposure to moderate forms of religion may be a vital inoculator against the dangers of extremist recruitment.
How Religion Can Inoculate Against Radicalism Russell Razzaque 2011
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Belief, unfortunately, seems a poor inoculator against violence against women.
Man-hating 2006
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I have known an inoculator whose practice was “to cut deep enough (to use his own expression) to see a bit of fat.” and there to lodge the matter.
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The pustules which arose in consequence so much resembled, on the twelfth day, those appearing from the infection of variolous matter, that an experienced inoculator would scarcely have discovered a shade of difference at that period.
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The pustules which arose in consequence so much resembled, on the twelfth day, those appearing from the infection of variolous matter, that an experienced inoculator would scarcely have discovered a shade of difference at that period.
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I have known an inoculator whose practice was “to cut deep enough (to use his own expression) to see a bit of fat.” and there to lodge the matter.
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Although it is very improbable that any one would now inoculate in this rude way by design, yet these observations may tend to place a double guard over the lancet, when infants, whose skins are comparatively so very thin, fall under the care of the inoculator.
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Although it is very improbable that any one would now inoculate in this rude way by design, yet these observations may tend to place a double guard over the lancet, when infants, whose skins are comparatively so very thin, fall under the care of the inoculator.
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The inoculator would shoot a tiny sliver full of the things deep into the whale's flesh.
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I have known an inoculator whose practice was "to cut deep enough (to use his own expression) to see a bit of fat." and there to lodge the matter.
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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