Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An epidemic.

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  • noun (Med.) An epidemic disease.

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  • noun medicine An epidemic disease

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Examples

  • We are so much engaged in making arrangements against the epidemy, which is now confidently reported to us to be the plague, of a most deadly species, that we have only time to refer you to the captain of the Aurora, to whom we have communicated every

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

  • The old men seemed to indulge in a superstitious tradition, that when this peculiar kind of epidemy attacks a country, it does not return or continue for three or more years, but disappears altogether, (after the first year,) and is followed the seventh year by contagious rheums and expectoration, the violence of which lasts from three to seven days, but is not fatal.

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

  • BFD is the epidemy of ignorance by our "leaders" as you can get!

    Democrats raise money off of Biden's F-bomb 2010

  • The you parents and people are freaking out are the sole epidemy of idiots.

    Miley Knows Best: Vanity Fair Fair, Vanity 2008

  • I contained myself and held back the tears, that is until the point when I told him about a frustrating teaching moment that I saw as being the epidemy of defeat: I was attempting to lecture in Kiswahili about Syphillis to the WHOLE secondary school 130+ young adults outside, under a mango tree that was firing her weapons of falling fruit on us.

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  • I contained myself and held back the tears, that is until the point when I told him about a frustrating teaching moment that I saw as being the epidemy of defeat: I was attempting to lecture in Kiswahili about Syphillis to the WHOLE secondary school 130+ young adults outside, under a mango tree that was firing her weapons of falling fruit on us.

    very slow start thais berglund 2005

  • I was the epidemy of the spoiled girl being dependant on her parents.

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  • Signor Conton died this morning of the epidemy; yesterday afternoon he was apparently quite well, and paid me a visit.

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

  • But however this destructive epidemy originated, its leading features were novel, and its consequences more dreadful than the common plague of

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

  • I have no doubt but the epidemy, which has been ravaging Spain lately, is the same disorder with the one above described.

    An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

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