feverous
adjEtymology From fever + -ous.
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affected with a fever.
- How often placed upon the sick man's brow Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!1864, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the poem)”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC:
- Who feels his temples newly feverous.1866, Poems and Ballads, The Two Dreams:
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- 1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230, O all wide places, far from feverous towns! Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!
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having the nature of fever
- Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:
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Rare having a tendency to produce fever
- a feverous disposition of the year
- For the soul that was but as a reed in the wind hath attained a Nirvana of calm, And is in this feverous desert of life a fountain of healing and balm,1897, Julia Ditto Young, The Story of Saville:
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feverish; frenetic
- Derived terms
- feverously