variolate

English

Etymology 1

From variola +‎ -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Adjective

variolate (comparative more variolate, superlative most variolate)

  1. Having the pitted appearance of smallpox.

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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[1]:
      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.

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Italian

Adjective

variolate

  1. feminine plural of variolato

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