variolate
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From variola + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Adjective
[edit]variolate (comparative more variolate, superlative most variolate)
- Having the appearance of smallpox
Etymology 2
[edit]From variole + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Verb
[edit]variolate (third-person singular simple present variolates, present participle variolating, simple past and past participle variolated)
- (transitive) To infect with smallpox.
- 1999 April 18, Jerome Groopman, “Best Medical Insight; Pox Britannica”, in The New York Times Magazine[1]:
- 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.
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