a. [f. Gr. ἐνδήμι-ος of or belonging to a state or people + -AL.] = ENDEMIC a.
1672. Sir T. Browne, Lett. to Friend, § 14 (1881), 137. There are endemial and local Infirmities proper unto certain Regions.
1683. W. Harris, Pharmacologia, xiv. 255. The Dutch have a Natural, and Endemial aversion to all Emeticks.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, III. 245. We find them subject to no particular endemial disorder.
1808. Bentham, Sc. Reform, 8. Another vice endemial among lawyers.
1830. Godwin, Cloudesley, III. xii. 237. Not one company of these endemial brigands was any longer to be heard of.
