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Webster 1913 Edition


Sporadical

Spo-rad′ic-al

(-ĭ-kal)
,
Adj.
Sporadic.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sporadical

SPORADIC

, SPORADICAL,
Adj.
[Gr., separate, scattered; whence certain isles of Greece were called Sporades.] Separate; single; scattered; used only in reference to diseases. A sporadic disease, is one which occurs in particular persons and places, in distinction from an epidemic, which affects persons generally or in great numbers.
Sporadic diseases are opposed to epidemics, as accidental, scattered complaints, neither general nor contagious.

Definition 2024


sporadical

sporadical

English

Adjective

sporadical (comparative more sporadical, superlative most sporadical)

  1. sporadic.

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