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170 words match “DEMI”

ENDEMICALLY adv.
In an endemic manner.
ENDEMIOLOGY n.
The science which treats of endemic affections.
EPIDEMIC n. 2 definitions
An epidemic disease.
EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMICAL a. 2 definitions
ed to a disease which, spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time; as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc. See Endemic.
EPIDEMICALLY adv.
In an epidemic manner.
EPIDEMIOGRAPHY n.
A treatise upon, or history of, epidemic diseases.
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL a.
Connected with, or pertaining to, epidemiology.
EPIDEMIOLOGIST n.
A person skilled in epidemiology.
EPIDEMIOLOGY n.
That branch of science which treats of epidemics.
HEMI-DEMI-SEMIQUAVER n.
A short note, equal to one fourth of a semiquaver, or the sixty-fourth part of a whole note.
HOMODEMIC a.
A morphological term signifying development, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same unit deme or unit of the inferior orders of individuality.
PANDEMIC a. 2 definitions
Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic. -- n.
REDEMISE v. 2 definitions
To demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate.
SEMIDEMIQUAVER n.
A demisemiquaver; a thirty-second note.
VENDEMIAIRE n. 2 definitions
The first month of the French republican calendar, dating from September 22, 1792.
VINDEMIAL a.
Of or pertaining to a vintage, or grape harvest. [R.]
VINDEMIATE v.
To gather the vintage. [Obs.] Evelyn.
VINDEMIATION n.
The operation of gathering grapes. [Obs.] Bailey.
ABBREVIATION n.
more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore.
ABERRATION n.
gard. Whims, which at first are the aberrations of a single brain, pass with heat into epidemic form. I. Taylor.
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