smallpoxn.

Brit.

/ˈsmɔːlpɒks/, U.S.

/ˈsmɔlˌpɑks/,

/ˈsmɑlˌpɑks/

Forms: see small adj. and pox n. Also as two words and with hyphen.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: small adj., pox n.

Etymology: < small adj. + pox n. Compare slightly earlier small-pock n., and also great pox n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e.Until the mid 18th cent. generally written as two words.

1. Medicine.

†a. Pustules of the disease smallpox (see sense 1b). Cf. small-pock n. 2, and pox n. 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > boil > pustule > of smallpox

variolas?a1425

variole?a1425

pox1476

small-pock1530

smallpox1562

pox1623

varusa1836

1562 W. Bullein Comfortable Regiment sig. C.v^v Wrapped with many calamities as ardent feuers, Pleurises, replecions of humours, Swellynges, Wennes, small Poxe.

1623 J. Hart tr. P. van Foreest Arraignm. Vrines iii. 46 Small wheales like the small poxe.

1676 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (ed. 3) 739 Custom tells us, that those large Pustles..are called the small-Pox.

1711 London Gaz. No. 4867/4 The Small Pox fresh upon him.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 204/1 Those which are fullest of that yellow liquor very much resemble what the genuine smallpox are on the fifth or sixth day.

b. An acute infectious disease characterized by high fever, headache and backache, and a rash which affects esp. the face and extremities and consists of pustules which heal with scarring. Also (as a count noun): †an outbreak, attack, or case of this disease (obsolete). Also called variola. Cf. small-pock n. 1 and pox n. 1a.In some instances this sense cannot be clearly distinguished from sense 1a. In later use with singular agreement.Smallpox was a common infection for many centuries, and was dreaded for its relatively high mortality rate (often around 20%) and its disfiguring effects, but was the first disease to be controlled by immunization and to be eradicated, with the last natural case occurring in 1977. It is caused by a poxvirus which infects humans only.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > smallpox

pock1296

variole?a1425

pox1476

small-pockc1510

smallpox?1562

variola1593

little pox?a1649

variolous1676

discrete smallpox1684

varioloid1820

varicelloid1873

variola major1902

whitepox1911

variola minor1925

?1562 W. Ward tr. R. Roussat Most Excellent Bk. Doctour & Astrologien Arcandam sig. E.vi^v He shall haue two maner of sickennesses. The firste at .xxiij. yeres olde, at what tyme he shalbe sicke of the smale Poxe or of an ague.

1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum vii. lxvi. f. 114/2 Some haue ache in the ioyntes, and no outwarde signe of the Poxe, and there is smal Poxe.

1649 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 13. 164 The Total of all the Burials this yeare 10566. Whereof of the Plague 67. Bloody Flux, Scowring and Flux 802... Flox and Small Pox 1190.

1657 W. Greenwood Απογραϕὴ Στοργῆς 34 It is a natural distemper, a kinde of Smalpox; every one hath had it, or is to expect it, and the sooner the better.

1696 J. Aubrey Miscellanies ii. 32 Periodical Small-Poxes. The Small-Pox is usually in all great Towns: But it is observed at Taunton in Somersetshire, and at Shirburne in Dorsetshire, that at one of them at every Seventh Year, and at the other at every Ninth Year comes a Small-Pox, which the Physitians cannot master.

1724 T. Nettleton in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 214 The Opposers of Inoculation affirm, that two Persons died of the Inoculated Small Pox.

1754 H. Walpole Let. 23 May (1861) II. 388 There is nothing else in the shape of news but small-pox and miliary fevers.

1764 T. Reid Let. in Wks. (1863) I. 40/2 The street we live in..was infested with the smallpox, which were very mortal.

1839 S. Austral. Reg. (Adelaide) 11 July 2 Vaccination, as a protection against Small-pox, will be performed for the Native Inhabitants every Wednesday..at the Native Huts on the Torrens.

1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 149 Small-Pox is very easily conveyed from one individual to another by inoculation, contact and infection.

1906 Times 21 Sept. 2/4 Is it really not possible to say whether the lymph supplied by the National Vaccine Establishment was derived originally from the smallpox of man, the pox of the horse, or from an eruption on the teats of a cow?

1958 Nursing (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) xiii. 160 Not all infectious diseases are notifiable, but such dangerous ones as smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid fever, measles, dysentery and poliomyelitis are included in the list.

1995 Sat. Night (Toronto) Oct. 73 The day may not be far off when the virus of protectionism, like smallpox, is at last extinguished from the earth.

2011 Independent 6 Oct. 19/1 The fight to eradicate the gruesome and debilitating ‘guinea worm’ disease, making it only the second in the world to be wiped out after smallpox, is on the verge of success.

c. Chiefly with distinguishing word: = sheep-pox n. at sheep n. Compounds 2. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep

pocka1325

soughta1400

pox1530

mad1573

winter rot1577

snuffa1585

leaf1587

leaf-sickness1614

redwater1614

mentigo1706

tag1736

white water1743

hog pox1749

rickets1755

side-ill1776

resp1789

sheep-fag1789

thorter-ill1791

vanquish1792

smallpox1793

shell-sicknessc1794

sickness1794

grass-ill1795

rub1800

pine1804

pining1804

sheep-pock1804

stinking ill1807

water sickness1807

core1818

wryneck1819

tag-belt1826

tag-sore1828

kibe1830

agalaxia1894

agalactia1897

lupinosis1899

trembling1902

struck1903

black disease1906

scrapie1910

renguerra1917

pulpy kidney1927

dopiness1932

blowfly strike1933

body strike1934

sleepy sickness1937

swayback1938

twin lamb disease1945

tick pyaemia1946

fly-strike1950

maedi1952

nematodiriasis1957

visna1957

maedi-visna1972

visna-maedi1972

1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep 324 This Disease, by many Farmers, is called the Hog-Pox in Sheep, proceeding from Foulness of Blood, and as some think is somewhat of the Nature of the Small-Pox in the human Body.]

1793 Ann. Agric. 19 299 Is the small pox known among sheep? It is a little known, but not at all common.

1804 Farmer's Mag. 5 175 This disease, which at Cauterets is called the small-pox, is contagious, and indiscriminately attacks wedders, ewes, lambs, and goats.

1866 Lancet 3 Feb. 120/1 The eruption of so-called sheep's small-pox..is far from being identical with that of the small-pox of man.

1889 G. Gresswell Dis. Ox 311 ‘Small pox in Sheep’..is known scientifically under the name of Variola ovina.

1912 Evid. Joint Comm. Tuberculin Test (State of Illinois) II. 475/2 Ovine Smallpox. Immediately smallpox is proved to exist in the ovine or goat species the region will be declared infected.

1980 Mod. Vet. Pract. 61 928/1 The vesicular lesions of sheeppox caused the disease to be called variola ovina or sheep smallpox.

†2. More fully smallpox cowry, smallpox shell. A cowry or cowry shell having markings thought to resemble the rash of smallpox; esp. the pustulated cowry, Jenneria pustulata, the shell of which is covered with raised orange tubercles. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of (cowrie)

Venus-shell1589

Venus-winkle1601

wart-gowry?1711

nipple cowry1713

smallpox1759

cowrie1777

serpent's skull1795

Arabian cowrie1804

mouse1815

sea-louse1815

serpent's head1815

wasp1815

niggerhead1895

1759 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 428/2 2. Is a white shell called the Small-pox, from the great number of prominent round tubercles with which it is covered.

1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. V. 896 Small-pox shell, Cypraea caurica.

1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 257/1 Cypræa pustulata, Lam., commonly called by collectors the Small-pox Cowry.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as smallpox case, smallpox epidemic, etc.

ΚΠ

1730 W. Douglass Pract. Ess. Conc. Smallpox 89 Perhaps it is more infecting than in the common Way, because after the Small Pox Confinement is over the inoculated Walk about, and carry with them a Sort of ambulatory Infection, their Incisions continuing to run a Sort of variolous Matter.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Smallpoxhospital, an hospital where people are nursed for the smallpox.

1834 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 736/1 The pestilential vapour of small-pox pustules.

1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxxi. 430 Are you aware that..this building is assigned to small-pox cases?

1898 H. R. Haggard Dr. Therne 2 The appalling smallpox epidemic.

1921 Lancet 26 Feb. 426/2 Finsen's well-known method of preventing pustulation by keeping small-pox patients in a red room is here alluded to.

1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 664/2 Consequently, in smallpox-free areas the vaccination of infants serves chiefly as a priming experience for later revaccination.

1986 D. Hogan New Shirt i. 33 She touched the smallpox scars on his left cheek.

2002 N.Y. Times 5 May 35/6 The government saw the need for a coordinated defense against a range of biological terror threats—including..the smallpox virus.

C2. Instrumental, as smallpox-pitted, smallpox-scarred, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [adjective] > blemished > pitted

pie-pecked1545

smallpox-pitted1926

the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [adjective] > having (an) indentation(s) > small

pittedOE

sparrow-picked1898

smallpox-pitted1926

1848 New Monthly Mag. Mar. 277 He was a little sallow-faced, small-pox-marked, sharp-featured fellow.

1879 Celtic Mag. 4 401 Foul insanitary hamlets, famished and smallpox stricken.

1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent v. 92 The pug-faced Mexican in charge, and his small-pox-pitted assistant.

1973 Times 6 Apr. 1/7 London was declared a ‘smallpox infected area’ by the Department of Health yesterday after three cases of the disease had been confirmed.

2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 184 The Jesuit, a smallpox-scarred índio in mission whites, and an immense, broad black were its entire crew.

Derivatives

ˈsmallpox-like adj.

ΚΠ

1802 G. Pearson Exam. Rep. Vaccine Pock Inoculation 141 The variolous infection only produced, at the most, a pimple for the three or four first days, and an imperfect Smallpock vesicle during the succeeding days, which..usually began to change into a scab before the tenth day, without any Smallpox like eruptions.

1922 Jrnl. Missouri State Med. Assoc. 19 165/1 In the meantime, we must look with suspicion on all examples of smallpox-like diseases.

2007 W. R. Clark In Def. of Self vii. 91 He [sc. Jenner] had noticed that milkmaids would sometimes develop mild fever and smallpox-like blisters on their hands (the condition known as cowpox).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

smallpoxv.

Brit.

/ˈsmɔːlpɒks/, U.S.

/ˈsmɔlˌpɑks/,

/ˈsmɑlˌpɑks/

Forms: also with hyphen and as two words.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: smallpox n.

Etymology: < smallpox n. Compare earlier smallpoxed adj., pox v.

1. transitive. To mark or disfigure (as) with scars of smallpox; to pockmark.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > infect with eruptive disease [verb (transitive)] > infect with smallpox

variolate1754

smallpox1864

smallpox1886

1864 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 9 Aug. 101/2 These were the days prior to ‘King Croquet’; so the poor little lawn was smallpoxed very thickly..with ugly little beds.

1901 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 28 July (1917) II. 711 Water, small-poxed with rain-splashes.

1972 R. Shaw Cato Street i. 43 Every other English face is small poxed.

1988 J. Brodsky To Urania (1992) 67 A white iceberg's frozen-in piano; smallpoxed with quartz, vases' granite figures; a plain unable to stop field-glass scanning.

2004 Independent (Nexis) 17 Feb. 19 There remain hundreds of buildings smallpoxed with bullet holes and the real front line still exists; it runs through the minds of every Lebanese.

2. transitive. To infect or inoculate with smallpox.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > infect with eruptive disease [verb (transitive)] > infect with smallpox

variolate1754

smallpox1864

smallpox1886

1886 G. W. Winterburn Value of Vaccination 141 The use of virus obtained by smallpoxing a calf spreads.

1897 A. C. Gunter Susan Turnbull xvi. 196 ‘What do you say to taking a tour of the hospitals?’ ‘Gad! Do you wish to smallpox me?’ growls Philip, angrily.

1904 W. R. Hadwen in Health Apr. 135/2 So that according to that theory you are literally smallpoxing a person when you vaccinate him.

1976 Backpacker 17 Oct. 29/1 Years of intermittent warfare had ended with the Indians either shot or smallpoxed out of New England.

2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 29 Dec. 4 Tony Blair asserted—almost certainly correctly—that if Al Qaeda could have nuked, smallpoxed or poison-gassed Manhattan, they would have.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	smallpox
释义	smallpoxn. Brit. /ˈsmɔːlpɒks/, U.S. /ˈsmɔlˌpɑks/, /ˈsmɑlˌpɑks/ Forms: see small adj. and pox n. Also as two words and with hyphen. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: small adj., pox n. Etymology: < small adj. + pox n. Compare slightly earlier small-pock n., and also great pox n. at great adj., n., adv., and int. Compounds 1e.Until the mid 18th cent. generally written as two words. 1. Medicine. †a. Pustules of the disease smallpox (see sense 1b). Cf. small-pock n. 2, and pox n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > boil > pustule > of smallpox variolas?a1425 variole?a1425 pox1476 small-pock1530 smallpox1562 pox1623 varusa1836 1562 W. Bullein Comfortable Regiment sig. C.v^v Wrapped with many calamities as ardent feuers, Pleurises, replecions of humours, Swellynges, Wennes, small Poxe. 1623 J. Hart tr. P. van Foreest Arraignm. Vrines iii. 46 Small wheales like the small poxe. 1676 J. Cooke Mellificium Chirurg. (ed. 3) 739 Custom tells us, that those large Pustles..are called the small-Pox. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4867/4 The Small Pox fresh upon him. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 204/1 Those which are fullest of that yellow liquor very much resemble what the genuine smallpox are on the fifth or sixth day. b. An acute infectious disease characterized by high fever, headache and backache, and a rash which affects esp. the face and extremities and consists of pustules which heal with scarring. Also (as a count noun): †an outbreak, attack, or case of this disease (obsolete). Also called variola. Cf. small-pock n. 1 and pox n. 1a.In some instances this sense cannot be clearly distinguished from sense 1a. In later use with singular agreement.Smallpox was a common infection for many centuries, and was dreaded for its relatively high mortality rate (often around 20%) and its disfiguring effects, but was the first disease to be controlled by immunization and to be eradicated, with the last natural case occurring in 1977. It is caused by a poxvirus which infects humans only. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > smallpox pock1296 variole?a1425 pox1476 small-pockc1510 smallpox?1562 variola1593 little pox?a1649 variolous1676 discrete smallpox1684 varioloid1820 varicelloid1873 variola major1902 whitepox1911 variola minor1925 ?1562 W. Ward tr. R. Roussat Most Excellent Bk. Doctour & Astrologien Arcandam sig. E.vi^v He shall haue two maner of sickennesses. The firste at .xxiij. yeres olde, at what tyme he shalbe sicke of the smale Poxe or of an ague. 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum vii. lxvi. f. 114/2 Some haue ache in the ioyntes, and no outwarde signe of the Poxe, and there is smal Poxe. 1649 Severall Proc. Parl. No. 13. 164 The Total of all the Burials this yeare 10566. Whereof of the Plague 67. Bloody Flux, Scowring and Flux 802... Flox and Small Pox 1190. 1657 W. Greenwood Απογραϕὴ Στοργῆς 34 It is a natural distemper, a kinde of Smalpox; every one hath had it, or is to expect it, and the sooner the better. 1696 J. Aubrey Miscellanies ii. 32 Periodical Small-Poxes. The Small-Pox is usually in all great Towns: But it is observed at Taunton in Somersetshire, and at Shirburne in Dorsetshire, that at one of them at every Seventh Year, and at the other at every Ninth Year comes a Small-Pox, which the Physitians cannot master. 1724 T. Nettleton in Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 32 214 The Opposers of Inoculation affirm, that two Persons died of the Inoculated Small Pox. 1754 H. Walpole Let. 23 May (1861) II. 388 There is nothing else in the shape of news but small-pox and miliary fevers. 1764 T. Reid Let. in Wks. (1863) I. 40/2 The street we live in..was infested with the smallpox, which were very mortal. 1839 S. Austral. Reg. (Adelaide) 11 July 2 Vaccination, as a protection against Small-pox, will be performed for the Native Inhabitants every Wednesday..at the Native Huts on the Torrens. 1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) I. 149 Small-Pox is very easily conveyed from one individual to another by inoculation, contact and infection. 1906 Times 21 Sept. 2/4 Is it really not possible to say whether the lymph supplied by the National Vaccine Establishment was derived originally from the smallpox of man, the pox of the horse, or from an eruption on the teats of a cow? 1958 Nursing (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) xiii. 160 Not all infectious diseases are notifiable, but such dangerous ones as smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid fever, measles, dysentery and poliomyelitis are included in the list. 1995 Sat. Night (Toronto) Oct. 73 The day may not be far off when the virus of protectionism, like smallpox, is at last extinguished from the earth. 2011 Independent 6 Oct. 19/1 The fight to eradicate the gruesome and debilitating ‘guinea worm’ disease, making it only the second in the world to be wiped out after smallpox, is on the verge of success. c. Chiefly with distinguishing word: = sheep-pox n. at sheep n. Compounds 2. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [noun] > other disorders of sheep pocka1325 soughta1400 pox1530 mad1573 winter rot1577 snuffa1585 leaf1587 leaf-sickness1614 redwater1614 mentigo1706 tag1736 white water1743 hog pox1749 rickets1755 side-ill1776 resp1789 sheep-fag1789 thorter-ill1791 vanquish1792 smallpox1793 shell-sicknessc1794 sickness1794 grass-ill1795 rub1800 pine1804 pining1804 sheep-pock1804 stinking ill1807 water sickness1807 core1818 wryneck1819 tag-belt1826 tag-sore1828 kibe1830 agalaxia1894 agalactia1897 lupinosis1899 trembling1902 struck1903 black disease1906 scrapie1910 renguerra1917 pulpy kidney1927 dopiness1932 blowfly strike1933 body strike1934 sleepy sickness1937 swayback1938 twin lamb disease1945 tick pyaemia1946 fly-strike1950 maedi1952 nematodiriasis1957 visna1957 maedi-visna1972 visna-maedi1972 1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep 324 This Disease, by many Farmers, is called the Hog-Pox in Sheep, proceeding from Foulness of Blood, and as some think is somewhat of the Nature of the Small-Pox in the human Body.] 1793 Ann. Agric. 19 299 Is the small pox known among sheep? It is a little known, but not at all common. 1804 Farmer's Mag. 5 175 This disease, which at Cauterets is called the small-pox, is contagious, and indiscriminately attacks wedders, ewes, lambs, and goats. 1866 Lancet 3 Feb. 120/1 The eruption of so-called sheep's small-pox..is far from being identical with that of the small-pox of man. 1889 G. Gresswell Dis. Ox 311 ‘Small pox in Sheep’..is known scientifically under the name of Variola ovina. 1912 Evid. Joint Comm. Tuberculin Test (State of Illinois) II. 475/2 Ovine Smallpox. Immediately smallpox is proved to exist in the ovine or goat species the region will be declared infected. 1980 Mod. Vet. Pract. 61 928/1 The vesicular lesions of sheeppox caused the disease to be called variola ovina or sheep smallpox. †2. More fully smallpox cowry, smallpox shell. A cowry or cowry shell having markings thought to resemble the rash of smallpox; esp. the pustulated cowry, Jenneria pustulata, the shell of which is covered with raised orange tubercles. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of (cowrie) Venus-shell1589 Venus-winkle1601 wart-gowry?1711 nipple cowry1713 smallpox1759 cowrie1777 serpent's skull1795 Arabian cowrie1804 mouse1815 sea-louse1815 serpent's head1815 wasp1815 niggerhead1895 1759 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 428/2 2. Is a white shell called the Small-pox, from the great number of prominent round tubercles with which it is covered. 1796 P. A. Nemnich Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lex. V. 896 Small-pox shell, Cypraea caurica. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 257/1 Cypræa pustulata, Lam., commonly called by collectors the Small-pox Cowry. Compounds C1. General attributive, as smallpox case, smallpox epidemic, etc. ΚΠ 1730 W. Douglass Pract. Ess. Conc. Smallpox 89 Perhaps it is more infecting than in the common Way, because after the Small Pox Confinement is over the inoculated Walk about, and carry with them a Sort of ambulatory Infection, their Incisions continuing to run a Sort of variolous Matter. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Smallpoxhospital, an hospital where people are nursed for the smallpox. 1834 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 736/1 The pestilential vapour of small-pox pustules. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxxi. 430 Are you aware that..this building is assigned to small-pox cases? 1898 H. R. Haggard Dr. Therne 2 The appalling smallpox epidemic. 1921 Lancet 26 Feb. 426/2 Finsen's well-known method of preventing pustulation by keeping small-pox patients in a red room is here alluded to. 1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 664/2 Consequently, in smallpox-free areas the vaccination of infants serves chiefly as a priming experience for later revaccination. 1986 D. Hogan New Shirt i. 33 She touched the smallpox scars on his left cheek. 2002 N.Y. Times 5 May 35/6 The government saw the need for a coordinated defense against a range of biological terror threats—including..the smallpox virus. C2. Instrumental, as smallpox-pitted, smallpox-scarred, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [adjective] > blemished > pitted pie-pecked1545 smallpox-pitted1926 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [adjective] > having (an) indentation(s) > small pittedOE sparrow-picked1898 smallpox-pitted1926 1848 New Monthly Mag. Mar. 277 He was a little sallow-faced, small-pox-marked, sharp-featured fellow. 1879 Celtic Mag. 4 401 Foul insanitary hamlets, famished and smallpox stricken. 1926 D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent v. 92 The pug-faced Mexican in charge, and his small-pox-pitted assistant. 1973 Times 6 Apr. 1/7 London was declared a ‘smallpox infected area’ by the Department of Health yesterday after three cases of the disease had been confirmed. 2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 184 The Jesuit, a smallpox-scarred índio in mission whites, and an immense, broad black were its entire crew. Derivatives ˈsmallpox-like adj. ΚΠ 1802 G. Pearson Exam. Rep. Vaccine Pock Inoculation 141 The variolous infection only produced, at the most, a pimple for the three or four first days, and an imperfect Smallpock vesicle during the succeeding days, which..usually began to change into a scab before the tenth day, without any Smallpox like eruptions. 1922 Jrnl. Missouri State Med. Assoc. 19 165/1 In the meantime, we must look with suspicion on all examples of smallpox-like diseases. 2007 W. R. Clark In Def. of Self vii. 91 He [sc. Jenner] had noticed that milkmaids would sometimes develop mild fever and smallpox-like blisters on their hands (the condition known as cowpox). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). smallpoxv. Brit. /ˈsmɔːlpɒks/, U.S. /ˈsmɔlˌpɑks/, /ˈsmɑlˌpɑks/ Forms: also with hyphen and as two words. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: smallpox n. Etymology: < smallpox n. Compare earlier smallpoxed adj., pox v. 1. transitive. To mark or disfigure (as) with scars of smallpox; to pockmark. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > infect with eruptive disease [verb (transitive)] > infect with smallpox variolate1754 smallpox1864 smallpox1886 1864 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 9 Aug. 101/2 These were the days prior to ‘King Croquet’; so the poor little lawn was smallpoxed very thickly..with ugly little beds. 1901 ‘M. Twain’ Let. 28 July (1917) II. 711 Water, small-poxed with rain-splashes. 1972 R. Shaw Cato Street i. 43 Every other English face is small poxed. 1988 J. Brodsky To Urania (1992) 67 A white iceberg's frozen-in piano; smallpoxed with quartz, vases' granite figures; a plain unable to stop field-glass scanning. 2004 Independent (Nexis) 17 Feb. 19 There remain hundreds of buildings smallpoxed with bullet holes and the real front line still exists; it runs through the minds of every Lebanese. 2. transitive. To infect or inoculate with smallpox. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > infect with eruptive disease [verb (transitive)] > infect with smallpox variolate1754 smallpox1864 smallpox1886 1886 G. W. Winterburn Value of Vaccination 141 The use of virus obtained by smallpoxing a calf spreads. 1897 A. C. Gunter Susan Turnbull xvi. 196 ‘What do you say to taking a tour of the hospitals?’ ‘Gad! Do you wish to smallpox me?’ growls Philip, angrily. 1904 W. R. Hadwen in Health Apr. 135/2 So that according to that theory you are literally smallpoxing a person when you vaccinate him. 1976 Backpacker 17 Oct. 29/1 Years of intermittent warfare had ended with the Indians either shot or smallpoxed out of New England. 2002 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 29 Dec. 4 Tony Blair asserted—almost certainly correctly—that if Al Qaeda could have nuked, smallpoxed or poison-gassed Manhattan, they would have. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1562v.1864
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