v. [f. VACCINE a. Cf. F. vacciner (a. 1803), It. vaccinare, Pg. vaccinar, Sp. vacunar.]
1. trans. To inoculate with the virus of cow-pox as a protection against small-pox.
1803. Ring, Treat. Cow-pox, II. 1026. A French physician … having vaccinated the son of the English Consul. Ibid., 1027. A number of those who were vaccinated in New England.
c. 1825. S. M. Lloyd, Tommy Sole, 2. When her only child, Tommy, was at a proper age, Mr. Howard proposed to vaccinate him. [Foot-note, To inoculate him with the cow-pox.]
1856. Miss Mulock, J. Halifax, xxv. Rather against Ursula’s wish, I vaccinated the children.
fig. 1809. Southey, in Q. Rev., I. 212. It might be supposed their ablutions at the cow’s tail vaccinated them against the contagion of any other religion.
1872. O. W. Holmes, Poet Breakf.-t., x. There are teachers … who vaccinate the two childhoods with wholesome doctrine.
1892. Zangwill, Child. Ghetto, II. 3. Who will vaccinate him against free-thinking as I would have done?
b. transf. To inoculate with a virus.
1904. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 10 Sept., 574. By vaccinating animals … with a strongly neurotoxic poison.
2. intr. To perform or practise vaccination.
1837. Macaulay, Ess., Ld. Bacon (1897), 404. The Baconian takes out a lancet and begins to vaccinate.
1843. Marryat, M. Violet, xviii. As I have before mentioned, the Shoshones vaccinate.
1878. [see VACCINE sb. 2].
3. trans. To inject by or in vaccination.
1868. E. C. Seaton, Handbk. Vaccination, 22. When lymph raised in cows by retro-vaccination is vaccinated back to the human subject, [etc.].
Hence Vaccinated ppl. a., Vaccinating vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1808. Reece, Med. Dict., s.v. Cow-pox, The proportion of *vaccinated persons.
1876. Bristowe, Th. & Pract. Med. (1878), 177. Sometimes a roseolous rash spreads over the vaccinated limb.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 29/1. Do the vaccinated escape in an epidemic?
1867. Chambers’s Encycl., IX. 688/2. The method of *vaccinating and the phenomena of cow-pox.
1868. Ballard, Vaccination, 355. The puncture of the vaccinating lancet.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 715. An active vaccinating material.
