Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Epidemic (Page: 501)

Ep`i*dem"ic (?), n. [Cf. Epidemy.]

1. (Med.) An epidemic disease.

2. Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.