Noun
The act or art of inoculating trees or plants.
The act or practice of communicating a disease to a person in health, by inserting contagious matter in his skin or flesh.
Fig.: The communication of principles, especially false principles, to the mind.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThen we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox. Leo Tolstoy
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. Havelock Ellis
Junk is an inoculation of death that keeps the body in a condition of emergency. William S. Burroughs
The science of inoculation is purely physical in origin, and concerns only the animal body. This latter science will shortly be superseded by a higher technique, but the time is not yet. p. 322/4. Alice Bailey
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans. Neil deGrasse Tyson
According to Douglass, smallpox inoculation was "a medical experiment of consequence," one not to be undertaken lightly. Source: Internet