epidemicaladj.n.

Brit.

/ˌɛpᵻˈdɛmᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˌɛpəˈdɛmək(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s–1600s epidemicall, 1600s epidimical, 1600s epidimicall, 1600s– epidemical.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French épidémique , -al suffix¹; Latin epidemicus , -al suffix¹.

Etymology: < Middle French épidémique, épidimique or its etymon post-classical Latin epidemicus, epidimicus epidemic adj. + -al suffix¹.

Now rare.

A. adj.

a. Of a disease: affecting many individuals within a short period of time; suddenly and widely prevalent; = epidemic adj. 1a.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [adjective] > epidemic

popular?a1425

epidemial1568

epidemical1595

epidemian1599

epidemic1603

exidemical1608

1595 T. W. tr. P. Leroy et al. Pleasant Satyre 53 This great Phisitian, seeing his countrie afflicted with a certaine epidemicall disease [Fr. vne maladie epidimique] and cruell pestilence, that did roote out all the people, counselled them to cause to be lighted great store of fires throughout all the countries, to purge and driue away the euill ayre.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 55 Cure vs of our Epidemicall diseases.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ xiii. 255 All Windes blowing much cleanse the Air, still and quiet Summers being the most unwholsom, and subject to pestilential and Epidemical Diseases.

1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 98 Their [sc. camels] epidemical Distemper is the Mange.

1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 385 The plague..has been mostly sporadic, seldom epidemical.

1816 F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany II. xxii. 316 An epidemical malady had raged among the cattle.

1881 Sat. Rev. 5 Feb. 172 Colds were epidemical; there were choruses of coughing.

1903 D. Sime Rabies xiii. 216 In such a case the disease would never really become epidemical.

1924 Stratford (N.Z.) Evening Post 26 Aug. Another theory is that the disease is a form of epidemical brain fever.

2020 Hindustan Times Ranchi (Nexis) 25 Nov. Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a dreaded epidemical disease, which is a matter of concern for abandoned and orphan infants staying at such adoption shelters.

b. Of, relating to, or associated with such a disease; (of a year or time of year) characterized by the occurrence of a such a disease; = epidemic adj. 1b.

ΚΠ

1621 W. Loe Vox Clamantis 36 If the aire be infected with an Epidemical quality, they that dwel therein cannot be very sound.

1655 J. Cooke Suppl. Chirurg. 268 Then if cacochymia abound, its good to abate it, that so nature may the more chearfully thrust out it's adversary; but if either the pox appear, or there be great malignancy, (as in an epidemical season,) Purging is very pernicious.

1754 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. 188 The Measles in general are not dangerous, unless from an insalubrious epidemical Constitution of the Year.

1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) ii. vi. 265 The common epidemical years that are interspersed throughout these tables.

1872 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 50 222 He states that the present is the eighth occasion, since the introduction of compulsory vaccination in 1810, on which the disease [sc. smallpox] has assumed epidemical proportions.

1904 Public Health Rep. 19 671 Without doubt it [sc. grippe] contributed to the unusual mortality of these months to a much greater degree than this, an analysis of which will be made later in the present epidemical prevalence.

2020 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 11 June (All but Toronto ed.) (Ideas section) a11 The laws of epidemical containment are dismissed if mass protests are called for.

2. figurative. Of a (usually) undesirable phenomenon: widespread, widely prevalent, universal; = epidemic adj. 2. Now rare.

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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent

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

1614 D. Price Prince Henry Second Anniv. 8 That Epidemicall case that S. Chrysostome describeth.

1627 R. Maynwaring Relig. & Alegiance i. 28 Wedded..to the loue of Epidemicall and Popular errours.

a1640 T. Jackson Wks. (1673) II. 380 This hypocrisie..epidemical to this nation.

1688 W. Sherlock Let. to Member of Convention 2 Let such a Prince beware of Epidemical Discontents.

1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. vi. 107 Those Vices, which are most prevalent and epidemical in the World.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 131 He had great knowledge; yet could not help giving way to this epidemical weakness.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. i. 33 Every means were used to excite an epidemical frenzy.

1836 J. Sparks Mather in Amer. Biogr. VI. vii. 329 Contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country.

2009 Daily Texan (Univ. Texas, Austin) 4 Aug. 4/3 It can be hard to believe that this trend of morally bankrupt, indiscriminately directed malice is quite as epidemical as he states.

†3. Perhaps: belonging to the whole people. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xviii. 219 That great Epidemicall Counsell [sc. Parliament], wherein every one from the Peere to the Plebeian hath an inclusive Vote.

†B. n.

An epidemic disease, or occurrence of such a disease; = epidemic n. 2a. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > epidemic disease

land-evil?c1225

epidemy1472

land-illc1500

epidemic1666

epidemical1676

exidemic1847

1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 568 Now this History and Cure of Acute Diseases here described, comprehends his Observations of the fifteen last years of this Age; a competent time, for rendring an account of the distinct species of Epidemicals, which not only fortuitously invade us, but are in one year, or in a certain series of years, of one and the same kind, and in other years different from one another.

1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 281 What candour and ability in his History of Epidemicals!

Derivatives

† epidemicalness n. Obsolete the fact of being epidemic; prevalence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > generality or prevalence > universality

universality?c1400

university1553

universalness1561

universalty1567

epidemicalness1646

allnessa1649

epidemicity1716

universalism1835

catholicity1868

globality1931

1646 W. Price Mans Delinquencie 4 The Epidemicalnesse and spreading universality [of iniquities and trespasses].

1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. (index) sig. Mm2^v Scurvy; its various Denominations, B. 2. p. 51. Its Epidemicalness, p. 52.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	epidemical
释义	epidemicaladj.n. Brit. /ˌɛpᵻˈdɛmᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌɛpəˈdɛmək(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s–1600s epidemicall, 1600s epidimical, 1600s epidimicall, 1600s– epidemical. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French, combined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: French épidémique , -al suffix¹; Latin epidemicus , -al suffix¹. Etymology: < Middle French épidémique, épidimique or its etymon post-classical Latin epidemicus, epidimicus epidemic adj. + -al suffix¹. Now rare. A. adj. 1. a. Of a disease: affecting many individuals within a short period of time; suddenly and widely prevalent; = epidemic adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [adjective] > epidemic popular?a1425 epidemial1568 epidemical1595 epidemian1599 epidemic1603 exidemical1608 1595 T. W. tr. P. Leroy et al. Pleasant Satyre 53 This great Phisitian, seeing his countrie afflicted with a certaine epidemicall disease [Fr. vne maladie epidimique] and cruell pestilence, that did roote out all the people, counselled them to cause to be lighted great store of fires throughout all the countries, to purge and driue away the euill ayre. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 55 Cure vs of our Epidemicall diseases. 1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ xiii. 255 All Windes blowing much cleanse the Air, still and quiet Summers being the most unwholsom, and subject to pestilential and Epidemical Diseases. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 98 Their [sc. camels] epidemical Distemper is the Mange. 1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 385 The plague..has been mostly sporadic, seldom epidemical. 1816 F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany II. xxii. 316 An epidemical malady had raged among the cattle. 1881 Sat. Rev. 5 Feb. 172 Colds were epidemical; there were choruses of coughing. 1903 D. Sime Rabies xiii. 216 In such a case the disease would never really become epidemical. 1924 Stratford (N.Z.) Evening Post 26 Aug. Another theory is that the disease is a form of epidemical brain fever. 2020 Hindustan Times Ranchi (Nexis) 25 Nov. Japanese encephalitis (JE) is a dreaded epidemical disease, which is a matter of concern for abandoned and orphan infants staying at such adoption shelters. b. Of, relating to, or associated with such a disease; (of a year or time of year) characterized by the occurrence of a such a disease; = epidemic adj. 1b. ΚΠ 1621 W. Loe Vox Clamantis 36 If the aire be infected with an Epidemical quality, they that dwel therein cannot be very sound. 1655 J. Cooke Suppl. Chirurg. 268 Then if cacochymia abound, its good to abate it, that so nature may the more chearfully thrust out it's adversary; but if either the pox appear, or there be great malignancy, (as in an epidemical season,) Purging is very pernicious. 1754 R. Brookes Gen. Pract. Physic (ed. 2) I. 188 The Measles in general are not dangerous, unless from an insalubrious epidemical Constitution of the Year. 1803 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (new ed.) ii. vi. 265 The common epidemical years that are interspersed throughout these tables. 1872 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 50 222 He states that the present is the eighth occasion, since the introduction of compulsory vaccination in 1810, on which the disease [sc. smallpox] has assumed epidemical proportions. 1904 Public Health Rep. 19 671 Without doubt it [sc. grippe] contributed to the unusual mortality of these months to a much greater degree than this, an analysis of which will be made later in the present epidemical prevalence. 2020 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 11 June (All but Toronto ed.) (Ideas section) a11 The laws of epidemical containment are dismissed if mass protests are called for. 2. figurative. Of a (usually) undesirable phenomenon: widespread, widely prevalent, universal; = epidemic adj. 2. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent 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 1614 D. Price Prince Henry Second Anniv. 8 That Epidemicall case that S. Chrysostome describeth. 1627 R. Maynwaring Relig. & Alegiance i. 28 Wedded..to the loue of Epidemicall and Popular errours. a1640 T. Jackson Wks. (1673) II. 380 This hypocrisie..epidemical to this nation. 1688 W. Sherlock Let. to Member of Convention 2 Let such a Prince beware of Epidemical Discontents. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God I. vi. 107 Those Vices, which are most prevalent and epidemical in the World. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 131 He had great knowledge; yet could not help giving way to this epidemical weakness. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. i. 33 Every means were used to excite an epidemical frenzy. 1836 J. Sparks Mather in Amer. Biogr. VI. vii. 329 Contrary to the epidemical expectation of the country. 2009 Daily Texan (Univ. Texas, Austin) 4 Aug. 4/3 It can be hard to believe that this trend of morally bankrupt, indiscriminately directed malice is quite as epidemical as he states. †3. Perhaps: belonging to the whole people. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1642 J. Howell Instr. Forreine Travell xviii. 219 That great Epidemicall Counsell [sc. Parliament], wherein every one from the Peere to the Plebeian hath an inclusive Vote. †B. n. An epidemic disease, or occurrence of such a disease; = epidemic n. 2a. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > epidemic disease land-evil?c1225 epidemy1472 land-illc1500 epidemic1666 epidemical1676 exidemic1847 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 568 Now this History and Cure of Acute Diseases here described, comprehends his Observations of the fifteen last years of this Age; a competent time, for rendring an account of the distinct species of Epidemicals, which not only fortuitously invade us, but are in one year, or in a certain series of years, of one and the same kind, and in other years different from one another. 1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 281 What candour and ability in his History of Epidemicals! Derivatives † epidemicalness n. Obsolete the fact of being epidemic; prevalence. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > generality or prevalence > universality universality?c1400 university1553 universalness1561 universalty1567 epidemicalness1646 allnessa1649 epidemicity1716 universalism1835 catholicity1868 globality1931 1646 W. Price Mans Delinquencie 4 The Epidemicalnesse and spreading universality [of iniquities and trespasses]. 1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. (index) sig. Mm2^v Scurvy; its various Denominations, B. 2. p. 51. Its Epidemicalness, p. 52. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1595
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