vaccinatev.
/ˈvaksᵻneɪt/, U.S. /ˈvæksəˌneɪt/ 1.
a. transitive. To infect (a person) with cowpox, as a protection against smallpox; to inoculate (a person) with material from the pocks of cowpox. Also: to inoculate (cattle) with such material, in order to maintain a supply of it. Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > immunize [verb (transitive)] > inoculate or vaccinate > against smallpox
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1800 R. Dunning Some Observ. Vaccination 12 Why is not the person who is vaccinated by Inoculation, as much and as long defended against variolous influence, as the person who, in the act of milking, contracted the Vaccine disease immediately from the cow?
1840 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 54 432 It is more difficult to vaccinate the cow with humanized than with primary lymph.
1929 H. W. Haggard Devils, Drugs, & Doctors ix. 230 Napoleon at once had all of his troops vaccinated if they had not already had smallpox.
2005 Baylor Univ. Med. Center Proc. 18 24/2 Jenner built a one-room hut in the garden, which he called the ‘Temple of Vaccinia’.., where he vaccinated the poor for free.
b. transitive. More generally: to administer any kind of vaccine to (a person or animal), esp. as a means of protection against a disease; to immunize. Cf. vaccine n. 1c.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > immunize [verb (transitive)] > inoculate or vaccinate
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1880 P. Casamajor tr. L. Pasteur in Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2 87 Let us take a chicken thoroughly vaccinated [Fr. vaccinée] by one or more previous inoculations of the enfeebled virus.
1904 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 574 By vaccinating animals..with a strongly neurotoxic poison.
1955 Sci. News Let. 23 July 51/1 Children are the principal carriers of polio, and if enough children are immunized, it would probably not be necessary to vaccinate the adults in order to stamp out the disease.
1983 Oxf. Times 3 June 18/2 Women are being urged to check that they have been vaccinated against German measles after a serious outbreak of the disease.
2021 MailOnline (Nexis) 14 May To-date, more than 36 percent of Americans have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
2. intransitive. To perform vaccination or immunization.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > immunoprophylaxis > immunize [verb (intransitive)] > inoculate or vaccinate
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1800 R. Dunning Some Observ. Vaccination 109 I have been seldom obliged to vaccinate a second time.
1837 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Bacon in Edinb. Rev. July 192/2 The Baconian takes out a lancet and begins to vaccinate.
1879 T. Bryant Man. Pract. Surg. (ed. 3) I. ii. 94 It would be also well, for the purpose of keeping up a good supply of vaccine, occasionally to vaccinate direct from the heifer.
1927 Hygienic Lab. Bull. (U.S. Public Health Service) No. 149 11 Chaumier states that in France ‘the majority vaccinate by means of pricks and introduce only a minute quantity of fluid’.
1978 Adv. Parasitol. 16 196 Surprisingly few attempts to vaccinate with material from cultured organisms [sc. schistosomes] have been reported.
2003 Lancet 20 Dec. 2108/1 Jenner..did not vaccinate directly with bovine cowpox until 1798.
3. transitive. figurative. Chiefly with against. To protect (a person or thing) from something; to make immune to the effects of something.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > protect or defend [verb (transitive)] > secure or protect
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1809 R. Southey in Q. Rev. Feb. 212 It might be supposed their ablutions at the cow's tail vaccinated them against the contagion of any other religion.
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto II. 3 Who will vaccinate him against free-thinking as I would have done?
1993 Toronto Life July 90/1 Trans is 29 and fabulously rich, having invented software that can ‘vaccinate’ computers against viruses.
2020 C. Franz in R. Chang-Rodríguez & C. Riobó Talking Bks. with Mario Vargas Llosa vii. 132 Literature..vaccinates us against truths that are too sure of themselves.
4. transitive. To inoculate (a substance) into a person or animal, as a means of vaccination or for experimental purposes. rare.
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1868 E. C. Seaton Handbk. Vaccination i. 22 When lymph raised in cows by retro-vaccination is vaccinated back to the human subject.
1914 U.S. Naval Med. Bull. 8 152 In a human volunteer material from verruga lesions was vaccinated into abrasions made on his right shoulder.
2002 Crop Sci. 42 1627/1 Antigenic proteins were isolated from AR542 and vaccinated into three mice.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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