inoculatrixn.
/ᵻˌnɒkjᵿˈleɪtrɪks/, U.S. /ᵻˌnɑkjəˈleɪtrɪks/, /ᵻˈnɑkjəˌleɪtrɪks/ rare.† 1. A woman who performs the budding or grafting of trees. Cf. inoculator n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [noun] > grafting > grafter
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1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii Shee that Grafteth, Inocculatrix.
2. A woman who performs or advocates inoculation as a protection against an infectious disease; a female inoculator. In later use only in historical contexts.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > specialist > [noun] > immunologist > inoculator
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1749 H. Jones tr. J. Pylarinus in Philos. Trans. Abrig'd 1700–20 (Royal Soc.) (ed. 3) 5 i. 379 Although I was not an Eye-witness to all I shall relate, I had a great many of the Circumstances from the Mouth of the Inoculatrix [L. Operatricis].
1770 De Re Rustica II. lxvii. 155 It is to be hoped that a few years more will render every good old woman in the country an expert inoculatrix.
2016 S. Coss Fever of 1721 268 When living briefly with her diplomat husband in Constantinople in 1717 she had permitted an ‘inoculatrix’ of the kind described by Pylarini and mocked by William Douglass to inoculate her three-year-old son.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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