Associations to the word «Variolation»
Noun
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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
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.