Webster's New World Dictionary, College Edition, 1968©

vaccine 1. obtained from a cow 2. of vaccinia or vaccination [i]n. lymph or a preparation of this from a cowpox vesicle, cntaining the causative virus and used in vaccinating against cowpox or smallpox. 2. any preparation of dead bacteria introduced into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease by causing the formation of antibodies.

Whatcha got to contribute?

The whole idea of vaccines originated with the observation that milk maids seemed to be immune to getting smallpox. It turns out that cowpox is similar enough to smallpox that contracting cowpox provided some degree of immunity to smallpox. Hence the name "vaccine" is derived from the Latin vacca, meaning cow.

I got one…

“Beat a dead horse”

As in, do we really need another thread about this shit?

We get it, they changed the definition, they moved the goal post…let it go.

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Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
The whole idea of vaccines originated with the observation that milk maids seemed to be immune to getting smallpox. It turns out that cowpox is similar enough to smallpox that contracting cowpox provided some degree of immunity to smallpox. Hence the name "vaccine" is derived from the Latin vacca, meaning cow.

Google 'Edward Jenner'.

Patriot, I hear you, but I wasn't trying to preach about current events, nor to focus on that one word.

"Vaccine" was a poor choice to start a thread about words changing their meaning, but comments in another thread about it is what got me to thinking.

Maybe I should have led off with "gay".

Vociferous
crying out noisily; clamorous.
characterized by or uttered with noisy or vehement outcry:

I like this word. I first read in a book called On Stranger Tides. The name of a boat was The Vociferous Carmichael.

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Originally posted by RichardC:
Patriot, I hear you, but I wasn't trying to preach about current events, nor to focus on that one word.

"Vaccine" was a poor choice to start a thread about words changing their meaning, but comments in another thread about it is what got me to thinking.

Maybe I should have led off with "gay".

Sorry bud, Im just cranky...apologies.

This whole virus thing needs to just go away.

From the 1828 Webster's American Dictionary:

Decimate DEC'IMATE verb transitive [Latin decimo, from decem, ten.]

1. To tithe; to take the tenth part.
2. To select by lot and punish with death every tenth man; a practice in armies, for punishing mutinous or unfaithful troops.
3. To take every tenth.

Modern usage:
To utterly destroy, or to destroy a significant number of something. ex, As a result of man-made climate change, the old-growth Sequoia stands have been decimated by the recent California wildfires.