All 7 Uses of
inoculate
in
Arrowsmith
- It was said that he could create life in the laboratory, that he could talk to the monkeys which he inoculated, that he had been driven out of Germany as a devil-worshiper or an anarchist, and that he secretly drank real champagne every evening at dinner.†
Chpt 2
- They had studied the forms of bacteria, they had handled Petri dishes and platinum loops, they had proudly grown on potato slices the harmless red cultures of Bacillus prodigiosus, and they had come now to pathogenic germs and the inoculation of a living animal with swift disease.†
Chpt 4
- Why didn't he get on with it, on to the entertainingly dreadful moment of inoculating the pig?†
Chpt 4 *
- While the assistant tagged the pig with a tin disk in its ear and restored it to the battery jar, Gottlieb set down its weight in a note-book, with the time of inoculation and the age of the bacterial culture.†
Chpt 4
- I shall now inoculate the second guinea pig, and the class will be dismissed.†
Chpt 4
- In that listless state he was mooning about the laboratory during elementary bacteriology demonstration hour, when Gottlieb sent him to the basement to bring up six male rabbits for inoculation.†
Chpt 9
- He produced antitoxin in the test-tube, which meant that it would be possible to immunize against certain diseases without tediously making sera by the inoculation of animals.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(inoculate) vaccinate (inject or otherwise introduce a weakened germ or other substance to immunize)
or metaphorically to indicate protection via previous exposure -- as in "She was inoculated against those dangerous ideas by early exposure in a safe environment."