endemicaladj.
/ɛnˈdɛmɪkəl/ = endemic adj.
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commona1325
generala1393
usual1396
popular?a1425
riveda1513
vulgarc1550
current1563
afloat1571
widespread1582
penny-rife1606
catholic1607
spacious1610
epidemical1614
epidemial1616
epidemic1617
prevailent1623
regnant1623
fashionablea1627
wide-spreading1655
endemical1658
prevalent1658
endemiala1682
obtaining1682
prevailing1682
endemious1684
sterling1696
running1697
(as) common as dirt (also muck)1737
prevailant1794
exoteric1814
endemic1852
widish1864
prolate1882
going1909
1658 G. Starkey Natures Explic. 92 Those endemical malignant vapours, which infect the air.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician vi. 208 With the Ægyptians..the Plague is commonly endemical.
1788 E. Burke Speech against W. Hastings in Wks. (1822) XIII. 424 Bribery was the ancient, radical, endemical, and ruinous distemper of the Company's affairs.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. vi. 56/1 I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of view-hunting.
1870 J. Cameron Phases Thought 149 The endemical disorder passing rapidly into epidemical.
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