inoculator
(ɪˈnɒkjʊleɪtə(r))
Also 7 -er.
[a. L. inoculātor an engrafter, agent-n. f. inoculāre to inoculate.]
One who or that which inoculates.
| 1611 Florio, Innestatore, a graffer, an inoculater. a 1626 Bacon New Atl. (1631) 44 These wee call Inoculators. 1725–6 Freind Hist. Physic (J.), Had John a Gaddesden been now living, he would have been at the head of the inoculators. 1799 Med. Jrnl. I. 115 Every one..knows the strenuous opposition which the first inoculators had to encounter, both in England and America, from vulgar prejudice. 1867 Baker Nile Tribut. viii. (1872) 110 Holy relics, that are inoculators of all manner of contagious diseases. |