epidemical
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[edit]epidemical (comparative more epidemical, superlative most epidemical)
- (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.