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VAKIETY.
1553 T. Wilson XAet. (15S0) 30, I might heape together
the varietie of pleasures, which come by travaile. 1633
Hemingb & CoNOELL in jst Folio Shaks. A 3 heading^ To
the great Variety of Readers. 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav.
186 Bdiold Ihc varietie of temporary blessings. 1798 S. &
Ht. Lee Canttrb. T. II. 164 The variety of simple scenes
..made him delight to linger in Swiuerland. 1851 Carpenter
Man. Pkys. (ed. a) 579 The variety of movements of
which the hand of Man is capable.
b. Without article. ? Obs,
iSTS Fenton {titU\ Golden Egistles, contayning varietie
of discourse, ^ih raorall, philosophical 1, and divme,
gathered as well out of the remainder of Guevaraes
workes, and other authors. i6o« Warner AB. Eng. xi.
Ixv. 278 Varietie of Men to court a Woman is her pride.
1680 MoRUEN G:rii)1?-j3n). Med. [f. prec.]
Inoculation with the virus of small-pox.
180S Med. yrnl. XIV. 536 A remarkable coincidence of
failure., of variolation as well as vaccination. i8io Edin.
Kev. XV. 340 It [i. e. vaccination] has been adopted by
millions who never would have submitted to variolation.
1896 Allbutt's Syst. Med. 1. 559 The practice of variolation,
which was revived and introduced into Great Britain by
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Variole (vea'riff»l). rare. [ad. med.L. variola
Variola.] Something resembling a small-pox
marking or pustule in appearance or formation
a. Ent. A foveole or small fovea.
1826 KiRBV & Sp. Entotml. IV. xlvi. 270 VarioU,..a.
shallow impression like a mark of the smail-pox.
b. Geol. A spherular concretion of a variolite.
1890 Q. Jrnt. Geol. Sac. XLVI. 312 The spherulites or
' varloles ' [of the variolite-diabase] are grouped or drawn
out in bands parallel to the surface.
Variolic (veariplik), s. rare~^. [f. Vamol-a
+ -ic. Cf. F. variolique.'\ Variolar, variolous.
1827 in Baron Life Jenner I. 335 Till I had inoculated my
children again with variolic matter.
Varioline
(ve>*rii>lin). rare. [f. as prec. -K -INK.]
The hypothetical infectious principle of variola.
1864 Fark Rep. Reg. Gen. Suppl. 34 When any zymotic
matter such as varioline, scarlatinine or typhine finds its
way into a village.
Variolite (ve^Ti^ait). Geol. [f. med.L. variol-a
Vakiola + -ITE 1 2. Cf. Y. variolite, G. variolit.'i
A kind of rock embedded with spherulites
which give it the appearance of being pock-marked
(see quots.); esp. the diabase (diorite) of Brongniart.
1796 KiRWAN Elem. Min. (ed. 2) I. 368 Variolites. Stones
that have rounded protuberances, of a ditferent nature from
the common mass of the stone. 1811 Pinkerton Petrol. 1.
133 When the crystals, .assume an oval, but particularly a
round shape, the rock may be aptly styled avariolite. Ibid.,
The stones called variolites of Durance, being pebbles rolled
down by that river in Dauphiny. 1879 Rutley Stud. Rocks
xiii. 248 Variolite is an aphanitic diabase of compact texture
and greenish-grey colour, in which there occur little concretions
of a paler colour, ranging up to the size of small nuts.
Va-rioli'tic, a. Geol. p. prec. + -ic] Of the
nature of, or containing, variolite ; spherulitic.
1862 G. P. ScROPE Volcoutoes 365 The clinkstone is usually
variolitic. 1878 Lawrence tr. Cotta's Rocks Classified 139
Diabase.. is sometimes.. variolitic or amygdaloidai.
Variolitiza'tion. Geol. [f. Variolitb -h
-IZATION.] The process of becoming variolitic;
change or conversion into variolite.
1890 Q. yrnl. Geol. Soc. XLVI. 330 As variolitization seems
to have resulted from the same causes that have built up
ordinary spherulites.
Variolization (ve^ri^iz^'-Jsn). Med. [f.
VAR10L-A + -IZATION.] Variolation.
1891 in Cent. Diet. 1910 Edin. Rev. Oct. 276 Variolisation
. . is said to have been known to the Chinese from the commencement
of the eleventh century.
Varioloid (veo-riJloid), a. and sb. Path. [ad.
inod.L. varioloids, -odes (Frank, C1790): see
Variola and -oiD. So F. varioloide, It.vajuoloide.]
A. aaj. Resembling variola or small-pox ; like
that of variola.
In early use ' applied to a supposed special^ disease spontaneously
developed in our climate under certain atmospheric
conditions and capable of being propagated by infection or
inoculation ' (Mayne Expos. Lex.).
1821 W. Stoker (,title), Observations on the Varioloid
Disease. 1825 Good Study Med. (ed. 2) V. 737 Varioloid
eruptions, iii. 88. 1851 Leadam Homoeopathy 354 Varioloid
Diseases. This term is applied to those diseases which
resemble small-po.\, and are more or less dependent upon
the same epidemical constitution of the atmosphere for their
production. 1899 Alllmtt's Syst. Med. VIII. 47^ Sometimes
It [a pathological process] is partial, and a varioloid lesion
results.