Definition of "epizootic" A particular epizootic disease . quotations examples
Quotations A surgeon in the town has also informed me , that a person requested him to prescribe for some lambs affected with the epizootic , and he gave them Epsom salts and opium , with , as he said , very good effect .
1856, On the epizootic lately affecting lambs, in The Veterinarian; or Monthly Journal of Veterinary Science for 1856, volume XXIX-II, fourth series, edited by Morton and Simonds, page 450
(dialectal, humorous, often in the plural) A disease or ailment (of humans ). quotations examples
Quotations Last fall , when Dad had the Epizootic ; no , I don 't mean that , tho I did think he had em , but when the Chicargar hosses got the Epizootic , Dad got all fired mad caus that xpressman didn 't cum round to move the rest of our traps .
1873, Jeramiah Juniur Blows His Bugle, in Gem of the West and Soldiers' Friend, seventh year, January 1873, page 378
adjective comparative more epizootic , superlative most epizootic
(epidemiology) Like or having to do with an epizootic : epidemic among animals . quotations
Quotations I handed it back to him , explaining that he had come to the wrong shop --unless he were a horse , of course . If he were and could provide his own nosebag , head -stall and Army Form 1640, testifying that he was guiltless of mange , ophthalmia or epizootic lymphangitis , I would do what I could for him .
1919 March 19, author not named, The Mud Larks, in Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, 2004 Gutenberg edition