Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EP-I-DEM'IC
EP-I-DEM'IC, or EP-I-DEM'IC-ALEP'I-DEM-Y
EP-I-DEM'IC, n.
A popular disease; a disease generally prevalent, but not dependent upon any local cause. The influenza of October and November, 1789, that of March and April, 1790, that of the winter 1824-5, and that of 1825-6, were very severe epidemics.
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