a. Med. [ad. Gr. ἔνθετικ-ός, f. ἐνθε- aor. stem of ἐντιθέναι, f. ἐν in + τιθέναι to place.] Put in; introduced from without. Said of ‘diseases produced by inoculation or implantation, and especially syphilitic diseases’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1867. Abyss. Exped., in Standard, 23 Nov., 3/4. Most danger is to be apprehended from the outbreak of epidemics—of small-pox, cholera, and enthetic disease.
1888. Sir M. Mackenzie, Frederick the Noble, 226–7. The man … urged that the disease might be of an enthetic character.
