inoculation

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People say, "That will entirely depend on whether inoculation is a successful experiment; that will depend entirely on quarantine regulations; that will depend on the early or late appearance of frost; that epidemic is pitched into the world, and it goes blundering across the continents, and it is all guess-work and an appalling perhaps."

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  1. noun The act or an instance of inoculating, especially the introduction of an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.
  2. noun Informal A preemptive advertising tactic in which one party attempts to foresee and neutralize potentially damaging criticism from another party by being the first to confront troublesome issues.

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  • Oh! we went too to the apothecairie , where they treated us with cordials, and where one of the ladies told me inoculation was a sin, as it was a voluntary detention from mass, and as voluntary a cause of eating gras . —  Letters of Horace Walpole, v2
  • In these, an inoculation from the French drama seems to have resulted in destruction of the nobler characteristics of the German stage. —  Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, V2
  • At 2 weeks post-inoculation, all of the six mice inoculated with the genotype Δ dbpAB / dbpAB had a positive biopsy (data not shown). —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • John McCain has said he'll be taking a tougher line against Barack Obama and his associates, and reporter Scott Shane's front-page piece Saturday on the "sporadic" ties between Obama and William Ayers, a founder of the 1960s domestic terrorist group Weather Underground, serves as a 2,100-word inoculation, a long investigative piece that does little in the way of actual investigating, providing the appearance of due diligence while exonerating Obama. —  TimesWatch Headlines
  • Yet a relatively low proportion of seniors and others for whom the vaccination is recommended have rolled up their sleeves for the inoculation, said Pilon. —  Canadian Online Health News
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  1. from Middle English inoculacion = French inoculation = Spanish inoculacion = Portuguese inoculação = Italian inoculazione, from Late Latin inoculatio(n-), an inoculating, ingrafting, from Latin inoculare, past participle inoculatus, ingraft, implant: see inoculate.
 

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