epidemical

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epidemical (comparative more epidemical, superlative most epidemical)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of epidemic
    • 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre‎[1], Cambridge, Book 5, Chapter 15, p. 254:
      Amongst other diseases the Leprosie was one epidemicall infection which tainted the Pilgrimes coming thither.
    • 1724, Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time‎[2], volume 1, London: Thomas Ward, page 123:
      It was the epidemical sin of the nation.
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