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vaccimulgence

vaccimulgence noun: the milking of cows.

Noun

vaccimulgence (uncountable)

  1. (formal, rare) The milking of cows.
    • Will you try to look out for a fit servant for us,—simple of heart, physiognomically handsome, and scientific in vaccimulgence.1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Sara Coleridge Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, volume 2, published 1817, letter to Mr. Poole, 5, November, 1796, page 381
    • Vaccimulgence. Who knows also, but that the human character may undergo strange mutations from quadrupedian sympathy, and that some modern Pasiphae may rival the fables of old.1993, Marc Shell, “Pasiphae, or On Vaccination and Vaccimulgence”, in Bestia: Yearbook of the Beast Fable Society, volumes 4-5, page 34

Origin of vaccimulgence

From vacci- (“cow”) + Latin mulgentia (“milking”).

Questions about vaccimulgence

What does vaccimulgence mean?
Vaccimulgence means the milking of cows.
What part of speech is vaccimulgence?
Vaccimulgence is a noun.

Words near vaccimulgence in the dictionary

  1. vaccenyl acetate
  2. vacci-
  3. vaccicide
  4. vaccident
  5. vaccidents
  6. vaccimulgence
  7. vaccina
  8. vaccinable
  9. vaccinal
  10. vaccinally
  11. vaccinatable

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