What does "epidemic" mean?
Epidemic: Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil. It was the epidemical sin of the nation. Bp. Burnet.
Additional senses
- 2.(Med.) An epidemic disease.
- 3.Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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