1657. G. Starkey, Helmont’s Vind., 92. Those endemical malignant vapours, which infect the air.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 208/1. With the Ægyptians … the Plague is commonly endemical.
1788. Burke, Sp. agst. W. Hastings, Wks. XIII. 424. Bribery was the ancient, radical, endemical, and ruinous distemper of the Company’s affairs.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res. (1858), 94. I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View-hunting.
1870. J. Cameron, Phases Thought, 149. The endemical disorder passing rapidly into epidemical.
