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Variolous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or affected with smallpox.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of or pertaining to smallpox.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to the smallpox; having pits, or sunken impressions, like those of the smallpox; variolar; variolic.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to or designating smallpox; variolar; variolic.

In entomology, having somewhat scattered and irregular varioles.

Also variolar.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. relating to small pox

Word Usage

"As well as the perfect change from that state in which variolous matter is capable of producing full and decisive effects on the constitution, to that wherein its specific properties are entirely lost, it may reasonably be supposed that it is capable of undergoing a variety of intermediate changes."

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

variolar variolic pocky

Same Context

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