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vacciolating

vacciolating is the present participle and gerund of vacciolate.

Meaning of vacciolate

Verb

vacciolate (third-person singular simple present vacciolates, present participle vacciolating, simple past and past participle vacciolated)

  1. (archaic) To innoculate with cowpox (the vacciolous virus) in order to produce immunity to smallpox.
    • Where I now vacciolate tens, I could easily do the same for hundreds.1802, published in 1831, Dr. John Walker, in a letter of the 29th of december to the Jenerian Society quoted from The Life of John Walker (by John Epps), volume IV. 77

Questions about vacciolating

What is vacciolating the present participle and gerund of?
Vacciolating is the present participle and gerund of vacciolate.

Words near vacciolating in the dictionary

  1. vaccinotherapy
  2. vaccinum
  3. vacciolate
  4. vacciolated
  5. vacciolates
  6. vacciolating
  7. vacciolation
  8. vacciolations
  9. vacciolous
  10. vaccs
  11. vaccutainer

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