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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Inoculate

(4 syl.) is to put in an eye (Latin, in oculus). The allusion is to a plan adopted by gardeners who insert the “eye” or small bud of a superior plant into the stock of an inferior one, in order to produce flowers or fruits of better quality.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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