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Definition of Epidemical

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Epidemical

1. 1. Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic. 2. Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil. "It was the epidemical sin of the nation." (Bp. Burnet) Origin: L. Epidemus, Gr, among the people, epidemic; in + people: cf. F. Epidemique. Cf. Demagogue. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Epidemical

Literary usage of Epidemical

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1. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"Among all the dice»« or the mind, there b not on« mor? epidemical or more pernicious tlian the lOV« Of «.!!!• r> . ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1826)
"CHAP, dead bodies produced an epidemical disease. After seventy -*~v"^- Jews had been burnt in their synagogue, they could still i.vin. thousand Moslems had ..."

3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... tempered with rose-water, which besides the delectable odour it renders, is a great preservative against epidemical and pestilential airs. ..."

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