Associations to the word «Variolation»
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Wiktionary
VARIOLATION, noun. (historical) The inoculation of a person with smallpox so as to induce a mild form of the illness and subsequent immunity to it.
Dictionary definition
VARIOLATION, noun. The obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox.
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.