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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Inoculation for the prevention of an infectious disease; vaccination; recently, the inoculation of cattle with tubercle bacilli from the human being, for the purpose of inducing a modified form of tuberculosis as a protection against the more violent form peculiar to cattle.

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