variolation vs vaccinating

variolation and vaccinating both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
variolation	Yes	No	No	No
vaccinating	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, vaccinating is a hypernym of variolation; that is, vaccinating is a word with a broader meaning than variolation:

variolation: the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox
vaccinating: the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity

Other hypernyms of variolation include inoculating.

variolation (noun)	vaccinating (noun)
the obsolete process of inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle of a person who has smallpox	the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity