EPIDEMICAL

Definitions: EPIDEMICAL

EPIDEMICAL

Adjective

1. Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an epidemic evil.

2. Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large number in a community; -- applied to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "EPIDEMICAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: EPIDEMICAL

Synonyms by domain: blue disease (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology), blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, purple ears disease.

Crosswords: EPIDEMICAL

Specialty definitions using "EPIDEMICAL": porcine epidemical abortion. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Practical History Of A New Epidemical Eruptive Military Fever... In Boston New England In The Years 1735 And 1736 (Notable American Authors) (reference) (more book examples)
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"EPIDEMICAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "EPIDEMICAL" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	2	245,945

Expression using "EPIDEMICAL": porcine epidemical abortion. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "EPIDEMICAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		epidemik (epidemic), ngjitës (adhesive, agglutinative, ascendant, catching, cement, communicable, contagious, dauby, epidemic, glue, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, hum paste, infectious, mucilage, pitchy, soaring, stick, sticking, sticky, tacky, tenacious, transmissible, upward, viscous). (various references)

Arabic		‏وبائي (epidemic, epizootic, pestilential). (various references)

Chinese		流行性 (Epidemic). (various references)

Czech		epidemický (epidemic, pandemic). (various references)

Danish		PRRS (blue disease, blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, PRRS, purple ears disease), porcint reproduktions-og respirationssyndrom (blue disease, blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, PRRS, purple ears disease), mystisk svinesygdom (blue disease, blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, PRRS, purple ears disease), blaa sygdom (blue disease, blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, PRRS, purple ears disease), blaa abort (blue disease, blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, PRRS, purple ears disease). (various references)

Dutch		nieuwe varkensziekte (blue disease, blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, PRRS, purple ears disease), mysterieuze varkensziekte (blue disease, blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, PRRS, purple ears disease), blauw-oorziekte (blue disease, blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, PRRS, purple ears disease), blauwe ziekte (blue disease, blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, PRRS, purple ears disease), abortus blauw (blue disease, blue ear disease, blue-ear disease of pigs, mysterious pig disease, mysterious swine disease, mystery pig disease, new pig disease, porcine epidemical abortion, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, PRRS, purple ears disease). (various references)

French		épidémique (epidemic). (various references)

German		seuchenartig. (various references)

Hungarian		ragályos (catching, contagious, epidemic, infectious, taking, zymotic), járványos (epidemic, epizootic). (various references)

Italian		epidemico (epidemic). (various references)

Korean		� 행성. (various references)

Pig Latin		epidemicalay

Portuguese		doença epidêmica. (various references)

Romanian		epidemic (epidemic). (various references)

Russian		эпидемический (epidemic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		epidemijski (epidemic). (various references)

Spanish		epidémico (epidemic). (various references)

Swedish		epidemisk (epidemic). (various references)

Turkish		yaygın (broad, common, diffuse, diffusive, endemic, epidemic, expansive, extensive, familiar, far flung, general, pandemic, pervasive, prevailing, prevalent, regnant, rife, wide, widespread), salgın (contagious, epidemic, outbreak, rife). (various references)

Ukranian		епідемічний (epidemic). (various references)

Vietnamese		dịch (epidemic, loose), có tính chất bệnh dịch. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "EPIDEMICAL": epidemically. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"EPIDEMICAL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eirenical, epidemia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-i-l-m-p"
	-2 letters: emplaced, epicedia, epidemic.
	-3 letters: calipee, claimed, clamped, decimal, declaim, emailed, empaled, emplace, impaled, implead, implied, limeade, medical, pedicel, pedicle.
	-4 letters: adipic, aedile, aliped, amidic, apiece, calmed, camped, ceiled, cleped, decamp, decile, delime, dimple, elapid, empale, epical, impale, impede, lamped, leaped, limped, limpid, lipide, macled, mailed, malice, mealie, mediae, medial, miladi, palmed, peaced, pealed.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-i-l-m-p"
	+2 letters: epidemically.
	+5 letters: epidemiological, pinealectomized.
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