Meanings
- archaicnot comparableendemic
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 1795,1 more example
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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality
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