epidemic

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There was in Swisserland in the Autumn of 1755, after a very numerous Prevalence of epidemical putrid Fevers had ceased, a Multitude of Dysenteries, which had no small Affinity with, or Relation to, such Fevers.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)

Learning itself, which tends so much to enlarge the mind and humanize the temper, rather served on this occasion to exalt that epidemical frenzy which prevailed.

From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David

"A rage for running in debt became epidemical," wrote a contemporary observer.

From Union and Democracy by Johnson, Allen

But the religious ignorance of the middle ages sometimes burst out in ebullitions of epidemical enthusiasm, more remarkable than these superstitious usages, though proceeding in fact from similar causes.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

This spirit will be caught by other officers, for bravery is epidemical and contagious as the plague.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail