variolateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

variolate (comparative more variolate, superlative most variolate)

1. Having the appearance of smallpox

語源 2

From variole +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix).

動詞

variolate (third-person singular simple present variolates, present participle variolating, simple past and past participle variolated)

1. (transitive) To infect with smallpox.
   • 1999 April 18, Jerome Groopman, “Best Medical Insight; Pox Britannica”, in The New York Times Magazine‎:

     Lady Montagu encouraged the Princess of Wales to variolate her two daughters. To assure herself of the safety of the procedure, the Princess first forced disenfranchised subjects -- several prisoners and an orphan -- to be variolated.

関連する語

• variola
• vacciolate

アナグラム

• ailevator