pandemic (pandemik)

and n. [= F. pan demique = Pg. It. pandemico, Those instances bring a consumption, under the notion of a pandemick or endemick, or rather vernacular disease to England. Harvey , Consumptions. II. n. A pandemic disease. = Pandæmonium , the high capital Of Satan and his peers. Milton , P. L., 1. 756. Hence-2. Any lawle , disorderly, and noisy place or a emblage.-3. A loud noise, as from pandemonium. Suddenly a regular pandemonium of shrieks, and directly the scurrying by of a number of the sable birds. Amer. Nat ., XXIII. 20. pander (pan'der), n. [Also written pandar, for Pandoridæ lação, In the next edition of my opium confe ions,. by mere dint of pandiculation , I will terrify all readers of mine from ever again questioning any postulate that I shall think fit to make. De Quincey, Confe ions. Pandinidæ (pan-din'i-dē), n.pl. [NL. (Thorell, 1876),