Word.ws English Dictionary

variolates

variolates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of variolate.

Meaning of variolate

Verb

variolate (third-person singular simple present variolates, present participle variolating, simple past and past participle variolated)

  1. (transitive) To infect with smallpox.
    • Lady Montagu encouraged the Princess of Wales to variolate her two daughters. To assure herself of the safety of the procedure, the Princess first forced disenfranchised subjects -- several prisoners and an orphan -- to be variolated.1999 April 18, Jerome Groopman, “Best Medical Insight; Pox Britannica”, in The New York Times Magazine

See all 2 meanings of variolate

Questions about variolates

What is variolates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Variolates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of variolate.

Words near variolates in the dictionary

  1. variolar
  2. variolaric acid
  3. variolas
  4. variolate
  5. variolated
  6. variolates
  7. variolating
  8. variolation
  9. variolations
  10. variolator
  11. variolators

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: variolates (page history and authors); variolate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “variolates.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/variolates. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.