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Variolation vs Ariolation - What's the difference?

variolation | ariolation |

As nouns the difference between variolation and ariolation

is that variolation is (historical) the inoculation of a person with smallpox so as to induce a mild form of the illness and subsequent immunity to it while ariolation is (obsolete) soothsaying; prophecy.

variolation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (historical) The inoculation of a person with smallpox so as to induce a mild form of the illness and subsequent immunity to it.

    • ariolation

    English

    Noun

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  • (obsolete) Soothsaying; prophecy.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.3:
    • Thus the Priests of Elder time, have put upon them many incredible conceits, [...] deluding their apprehensions with Ariolation , South saying, and such oblick Idolatries [...].