pandemicadj.n.

Brit.

/panˈdɛmɪk/, U.S.

/pænˈdɛmɪk/

Forms: 1600s–1700s pandemick, 1700s– pandemic.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek πάνδημος , -ic suffix.

Etymology: < ancient Greek πάνδημος of or belonging to the whole people, public, vulgar, in Hellenistic Greek also used of diseases ( < παν- pan- comb. form + δῆμος people, populace: see deme n.²) + -ic suffix. Compare post-classical Latin pandemus (4th cent. in medical context). In sense A. 3 after ancient Greek πάνδημος ἔρως common, vulgar, or sensual love, as opposed to οὐράνιος the heavenly or spiritual; compare πάνδημος Ἀϕροδίτη the earthly or human Aphrodite (Venus), πάνδημοι ἐρασταί earthly lovers. See Plato Symposium 180e. Compare earlier pandemial adj., pandemical adj.

A. adj.

1. Frequently depreciative. General, universal, widespread.In quot. 1659 with reference to a political system in which all the people govern equally. Subsequently usually understood as an extended use of sense A. 2.

ΚΠ

1659 J. Rogers Διαπολιτεία 78 Thus far for the sense (and sentence) of his own Oracle..against such an unjust Equality of Pandemick Government and foundation; without distinction of Dignitaries, or discrimination of the Good from the Bad.

?1794 J. S. Eustace Lett. Crimes George III iii. 7 In a country where such doctrines are pandemic, for even the ministers of the King dare not oppose them..however appearances may be against an insurrection, it may nevertheless at any, nay every, moment be expected.

1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls xxviii. 371 It is absolutely exceptional; it will never be pandemic.

1941 Time 16 June 61/1 Thirteen recorded versions of this pandemic double-talk ballad are available.

1995 Face Sept. 167/2 Jungle's popularity and pandemic dancefloor appeal has never been more evident.

1997 J. Steingarten Man who ate Everything (1998) iv. 149 Wood-oven pizzas and grilled everything are now pandemic.

2. Of a disease: epidemic over a very large area; affecting a large proportion of a population. Also: of or relating to such a disease. Cf. epidemic adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [adjective] > pandemic

pandemial1568

pandemical1610

pandemic1666

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent > over the whole world, country, etc.

pandemic1666

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus i. 2 Some [diseases] do more generally haunt a Country..whence such diseases are termed Endemick or Pandemick.

1754 R. Brookes Introd. Physic & Surg. 41 Diseases are likewise endemic and pandemic.

1800 B. Mosely Med. Tracts (ed. 2) v. 245 No pestilential, or pandemic fever, was ever imported, or exported.

1883 L. Playfair Speech 19 June in Hansard 280 1021/1 This epidemic became pandemic, for it not only devastated Europe, but invaded both North and South America, as well as the South Sea Islands.

1892 Times 2 Sept. 9/1 We are face to face with a pandemic outbreak of cholera similar to those which fell upon Europe in 1830, 1847, 1853, and 1866.

1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xxxii. 415 Influenza is an acute febrile disease of the upper respiratory tract, which may appear in pandemic, epidemic or sporadic form.

1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 662/2 In May of 1957 the new Asian variant was isolated and promptly characterized; its pandemic potential was then predicted.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 27 Nov. 6/3 If it [sc. swine flu] starts up again and enough people aren't protected by the shots, it could spread to pandemic proportions.

1989 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Feb. 273/1 Dental disease is pandemic in Britain despite a reduction in caries in recent years.

3. Of or relating to physical or sensual love (as opposed to spiritual or divine love).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [adjective]

fleshlyc900

carnala1500

physical1778

sexual1809

pandemian1818

pandemica1822

sexful1894

sexy1923

bedroom1924

the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > of or relating to sexual love

amorousc1405

amatory1571

Venerean1575

amatorious1587

venerous1587

venereous1611

venerious1620

erotical1621

Anacreontic1640

erotic1668

gallant1673

un-Platonic1726

amatorian1779

pandemian1818

pandemica1822

genesial1848

aphrodisian1860

a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. Plato Banquet in Prose Wks. (1888) II. 67 That Pandemic lover who loves rather the body than the soul is worthless.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. 5/1 It is the Pandemic not the Heavenly goddess whose praises he chants.

1917 P. E. More Platonism 192 Hence the theory of an Uranian love that carries the desires of the soul upwards to the participation in Ideas, like, yet very unlike, the common, or Pandemic, love that craves the pleasure of earthly possessions.

B. n.

A pandemic disease; an outbreak of such a disease.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > pandemic disease

pandemic1832

pandemia1846

pandemy1846

1832 J. A. Allen in Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 5 Sept. 53 If all, or about all the inhabitants of a country be similarly attacked, at or near the same time, with a particular complaint, it is more properly called a pandemic.

1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 141 An epidemic exists in one community only,..but in its greater extension, over a whole land, it is called a pandemic.

1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 2 Sept. 522/1 The pandemic of 1918 ushered in a period of frequent epidemics of gradually diminishing severity which lasted for 20 years before former levels were again reached.

1992 Spectator 19 Dec. 26/3 I had read a number of apocalyptic novels in which homo sapiens was wiped out by a rapidly spreading, fatal pandemic.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pandemic
释义	pandemicadj.n. Brit. /panˈdɛmɪk/, U.S. /pænˈdɛmɪk/ Forms: 1600s–1700s pandemick, 1700s– pandemic. Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek πάνδημος , -ic suffix. Etymology: < ancient Greek πάνδημος of or belonging to the whole people, public, vulgar, in Hellenistic Greek also used of diseases ( < παν- pan- comb. form + δῆμος people, populace: see deme n.²) + -ic suffix. Compare post-classical Latin pandemus (4th cent. in medical context). In sense A. 3 after ancient Greek πάνδημος ἔρως common, vulgar, or sensual love, as opposed to οὐράνιος the heavenly or spiritual; compare πάνδημος Ἀϕροδίτη the earthly or human Aphrodite (Venus), πάνδημοι ἐρασταί earthly lovers. See Plato Symposium 180e. Compare earlier pandemial adj., pandemical adj. A. adj. 1. Frequently depreciative. General, universal, widespread.In quot. 1659 with reference to a political system in which all the people govern equally. Subsequently usually understood as an extended use of sense A. 2. ΚΠ 1659 J. Rogers Διαπολιτεία 78 Thus far for the sense (and sentence) of his own Oracle..against such an unjust Equality of Pandemick Government and foundation; without distinction of Dignitaries, or discrimination of the Good from the Bad. ?1794 J. S. Eustace Lett. Crimes George III iii. 7 In a country where such doctrines are pandemic, for even the ministers of the King dare not oppose them..however appearances may be against an insurrection, it may nevertheless at any, nay every, moment be expected. 1873 A. D. Whitney Other Girls xxviii. 371 It is absolutely exceptional; it will never be pandemic. 1941 Time 16 June 61/1 Thirteen recorded versions of this pandemic double-talk ballad are available. 1995 Face Sept. 167/2 Jungle's popularity and pandemic dancefloor appeal has never been more evident. 1997 J. Steingarten Man who ate Everything (1998) iv. 149 Wood-oven pizzas and grilled everything are now pandemic. 2. Of a disease: epidemic over a very large area; affecting a large proportion of a population. Also: of or relating to such a disease. Cf. epidemic adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [adjective] > pandemic pandemial1568 pandemical1610 pandemic1666 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent > over the whole world, country, etc. pandemic1666 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus i. 2 Some [diseases] do more generally haunt a Country..whence such diseases are termed Endemick or Pandemick. 1754 R. Brookes Introd. Physic & Surg. 41 Diseases are likewise endemic and pandemic. 1800 B. Mosely Med. Tracts (ed. 2) v. 245 No pestilential, or pandemic fever, was ever imported, or exported. 1883 L. Playfair Speech 19 June in Hansard 280 1021/1 This epidemic became pandemic, for it not only devastated Europe, but invaded both North and South America, as well as the South Sea Islands. 1892 Times 2 Sept. 9/1 We are face to face with a pandemic outbreak of cholera similar to those which fell upon Europe in 1830, 1847, 1853, and 1866. 1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) xxxii. 415 Influenza is an acute febrile disease of the upper respiratory tract, which may appear in pandemic, epidemic or sporadic form. 1968 Jrnl. Pediatrics 73 662/2 In May of 1957 the new Asian variant was isolated and promptly characterized; its pandemic potential was then predicted. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 27 Nov. 6/3 If it [sc. swine flu] starts up again and enough people aren't protected by the shots, it could spread to pandemic proportions. 1989 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Feb. 273/1 Dental disease is pandemic in Britain despite a reduction in caries in recent years. 3. Of or relating to physical or sensual love (as opposed to spiritual or divine love). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [adjective] fleshlyc900 carnala1500 physical1778 sexual1809 pandemian1818 pandemica1822 sexful1894 sexy1923 bedroom1924 the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > of or relating to sexual love amorousc1405 amatory1571 Venerean1575 amatorious1587 venerous1587 venereous1611 venerious1620 erotical1621 Anacreontic1640 erotic1668 gallant1673 un-Platonic1726 amatorian1779 pandemian1818 pandemica1822 genesial1848 aphrodisian1860 a1822 P. B. Shelley tr. Plato Banquet in Prose Wks. (1888) II. 67 That Pandemic lover who loves rather the body than the soul is worthless. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Sept. 5/1 It is the Pandemic not the Heavenly goddess whose praises he chants. 1917 P. E. More Platonism 192 Hence the theory of an Uranian love that carries the desires of the soul upwards to the participation in Ideas, like, yet very unlike, the common, or Pandemic, love that craves the pleasure of earthly possessions. B. n. A pandemic disease; an outbreak of such a disease. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > [noun] > pandemic disease pandemic1832 pandemia1846 pandemy1846 1832 J. A. Allen in Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 5 Sept. 53 If all, or about all the inhabitants of a country be similarly attacked, at or near the same time, with a particular complaint, it is more properly called a pandemic. 1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 141 An epidemic exists in one community only,..but in its greater extension, over a whole land, it is called a pandemic. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 2 Sept. 522/1 The pandemic of 1918 ushered in a period of frequent epidemics of gradually diminishing severity which lasted for 20 years before former levels were again reached. 1992 Spectator 19 Dec. 26/3 I had read a number of apocalyptic novels in which homo sapiens was wiped out by a rapidly spreading, fatal pandemic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1659
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