Español
epidemia.
(Del gr. ἐπιδημία).
1. f. Enfermedad que se propaga durante algún tiempo por un país, acometiendo simultáneamente a gran número de personas.
Fuente: Diccionario de la Real Academia Española
English
epidemus, Gr. ?, ?, among the people, epidemic; ? in + ? people: cf. F. [ e]pid[ e]mique. Cf. {Demagogue}.] 1. (Med.) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See {Endemic}. [1913 Webster] 2. Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great
numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an
epidemic evil.
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It was the epidemical sin of the nation. --Bp.
Burnet.
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Epidemic Ep`i*dem"ic, n. Epidemy.
1. (Med.) An epidemic disease.
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2. Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as
an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of
terror.
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Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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