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variolate

[ vair-ee-uh-leyt, -lit ]

adjective

Pathology.
  1. resembling smallpox, as a lesion.


variolate

/ ˈɛəɪəˌɪ /

verb

  1. tr to inoculate with the smallpox virus
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. marked or pitted with or as if with the scars of smallpox
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˈپDz, noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of variolate1

First recorded in 1785–95; variol(a) + -ate 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of variolate1

C18: from variola
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“So if you can drive up rates of asymptomatic infection with masks, maybe that becomes a way to variolate the population.”

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We can scarcely suppose that he did anything else than variolate these persons, just as he would have done had he used variolous lymph without the addition of milk.

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Variolate -ose: with large, rounded impressions like pock-marks.

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