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English
Adjective
epidemical (comparative more epidemical, superlative most epidemical)
- (obsolete) Alternative form of epidemic
1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Book 5, Chapter 15, p. 254:Amongst other diseases the Leprosie was one epidemicall infection which tainted the Pilgrimes coming thither.
1724, Gilbert Burnet, History of His Own Time, volume 1, London: Thomas Ward, page 123:It was the epidemical sin of the nation.