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inoculator|ɪˈnɒkjʊleɪtə(r)|
Also 7 -er.
[a. L. inoculātor an engrafter, agent-n. f. inoculāre to inoculate.]
One who or that which inoculates.
1611Florio, Innestatore, a graffer, an inoculater. a1626Bacon New Atl. (1631) 44 These wee call Inoculators. 1725–6Freind Hist. Physic (J.), Had John a Gaddesden been now living, he would have been at the head of the inoculators. 1799Med. Jrnl. I. 115 Every one..knows the strenuous opposition which the first inoculators had to encounter, both in England and America, from vulgar prejudice. 1867Baker Nile Tribut. viii. (1872) 110 Holy relics, that are inoculators of all manner of contagious diseases. |