Epidemic /(?)/
Ep·i·dem·ic
Epidemic
a.
- 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. (Med.)
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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.
Epidemic
n.
- An epidemic disease. (Med.)
- Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.