feverous

English

Etymology

From fever +‎ -ous.

Adjective

feverous (comparative more feverous, superlative most feverous)

  1. affected with a fever.
    • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the poem)”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC:
      How often placed upon the sick man's brow
      Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!
    • 1866, Poems and Ballads, The Two Dreams:
      Who feels his temples newly feverous.
    • 1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230,[1]
      O all wide places, far from feverous towns!
      Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!
  2. having the nature of fever
    • 1667, 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:
      Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds
  3. (rare) having a tendency to produce fever
    a feverous disposition of the year
    • 1858, Charles Kingsley, Andromeda and Other Poems, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC:
      Hark! from wasted moor and fen,
      Feverous alley, stifling den,
      Swells the wail of Saxon men—
      Work! or the grave!
    • 1897, Julia Ditto Young, The Story of Saville:
      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,
  4. feverish; frenetic

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