[ad. Fr. épizootie, irreg. f. Gr. ἐπί upon + ζῷον animal.] An epizootic disease.
1781. Projects, in Ann. Reg., 102/1. The report of an Epizooty is often spread.
1798. Malthus, Popul. (1817), I. 251. Great and wasting epizooties are frequent among the cattle.
1867. Ruffini, Quiet Nook in Jura, 274. And fears were entertained of a coming epizooty.
1882. Jrnl. Linn. Soc., XVI. 188. This ostrich epizoöty is a kind of strongylosis.
