a. Obs. [a. OF. epidemial, f. épidémie (see EPIDEMY).] = EPIDEMIC a. A. 1.

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1607.  Dekker, Knt.’s Conjur. (1842), 76. Barbarisme was now growne to be an epidemiall disease.

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1627.  Bp. Wren, Serm., 15. The Epidemiall prophanation of our times.

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a. 1641.  Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 184. To cure diseases epidemiall.

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1710.  T. Fuller, Pharm. Extemp., 94.

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1809.  Pearson, in Phil. Trans., XCIX. 317. That very common and extensively epidemial disease of our climate, the winter cough.

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