VAC'CINATE, verb transitive [Latin vacca, a cow.] To inoculate with the cow-pox, or a virus originally taken from cows, called vaccine matter.
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Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
VAC'CINATE, verb transitive [Latin vacca, a cow.] To inoculate with the cow-pox, or a virus originally taken from cows, called vaccine matter.
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