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endemical en · ADJ

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1. (archaic, not-comparable) endemic
   • The situation is damp and unwholesome, and the water so bad, that I should suppose a long continuance here of such a number of prisoners must be productive of endemical disorders. 1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,:
   • In his own grounds he never wore a hat: he used to say, that on his first visit to Paris he was ashamed of his effeminacy, when he saw every meagre little Frenchman whom he could have knocked down in a breath walking without a hat, which he could not do without a certainty of taking the disease which the Germans say is endemical in England, and which they call to catch cold. 1890, Grace & Philip Wharton, The Wits and Beaux of Society: