ENDE'MIAL, adjective [Gr. people.] Peculiar to a people or nation. An endemic disease, is one to which the inhabitants of a particular country are peculiarly subject, and which, for that reason, may be supposed to proceed from local causes, as bad air or water. The epithet is also applied to a disease which prevails in a particular season, chiefly or wholly in a particular place.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.