Definition for IN-FLU-EN'ZA

IN-FLU-EN'ZA, n. [It. influenza, influence.]

An epidemic catarrh. The influenza of October and November, 1789, and that of April and May, 1790, were very general or universal in the United States, and unusually severe. A like influenza prevailed in the winters of 1825 an 1826.

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