Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining or relating to inoculation; inoculatory.

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  • adjective Relating to inoculation.

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Examples

  • First, while I contend that nearly all horror can be read as inoculative to some degree, most authors do not intend it outright, and I have already demonstrated how a text that is aware of it inoculative potentiality functions in the case

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • First, while I contend that nearly all horror can be read as inoculative to some degree, most authors do not intend it outright, and I have already demonstrated how a text that is aware of it inoculative potentiality functions in the case

    The Lovecraft News Network 2009

  • Moreover, at the present time, when there is so much talk about the inoculative treatment of pulmonary consumption by the cultivated virus of its special microbe, it is highly interesting to know that the helenin of Elecampane is said to be peculiarly destructive to the bacillus of tubercular disease.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • T. lusitanicus, the modulation of the SCP and THA levels during the winter may be an important mechanism in preventing the formation of inoculative freezing (by contact with ice) during periods of frosts.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jos? R. Verd? et al. 2010

  • This is likely because heat is conducted more efficiently at these points than to the surrounding air, and the broad range of temperatures do not indicate inoculative freezing, which tends to happen consistently at high subzero temperatures when it occurs

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Brent J. Sinclair et al. 2009

  • Shimada K, Riihimaa A (1988) Cold acclimation, inoculative freezing and slow cooling: essential factors contributing to the freezing-tolerance in diapausing larvae of

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Brent J. Sinclair et al. 2009

  • Charlet LD, Leopold RA (1992) A differential scanning calorimetric analysis of inoculative freezing in an insect.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Brent J. Sinclair et al. 2009

  • As a specific point of contact, this study will reread H.P. Lovecraft’s notion of “cosmic horror” as an example of the inoculative potentiality of textual horror.

    The Lovecraft News Network 2009

  • As a specific point of contact, this study will reread H.P. Lovecraft’s notion of “cosmic horror” as an example of the inoculative potentiality of textual horror.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • [19], inoculative freezing is likely, although the decoupling of body size and SCP in diapausing

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Brent J. Sinclair et al. 2009

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