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feverish, a.|ˈfiːvərɪʃ|
[f. fever n. + -ish.]
1. a. Having the symptoms constituting fever (see fever n. 1 a). †b. Ill of a fever (obs.).
1647Cowley Mistress, Cure ii, Drink which feaverish men desire. 1680Burnet Rochester 70 A Feaverish Man cannot judge of Tasts. 1701Penn in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 47, [I] have had a restless, feverish night. 1779Johnson Life Ascham Wks. IV. 635 He was for some years hectically feverish. 1796Jane Austen Sense & Sens. (1849) 228 Though heavy and feverish..a good night's rest was to cure her.
2. fig. Excited, fitful, restless, now hot now cold.
1634Milton Comus 8 Men..Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being. 1670Baxter Cure Ch. Div. 174 To turn the native heat of Religion into a feavourish outside zeal about words. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 165 This feverish uncertainty..in Human conduct seems unavoidable. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 228 A few hours of feverish joy were followed by weeks of misery.
3.
†a. Pertaining to fever. feverish matter: the impurity in the blood supposed to give rise to fever (obs.).
b. Of the nature of fever; resembling fever or its symptoms.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xliii. (1495) 256 Rysynge and stondynge of heere..comith in the bodi of feuerysshe matere. 1651Biggs New Disp. ⁋230 The feavorish matter doth not swim in the bloud. 1680Wood Life (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) II. 497 This month..is an odde feaverish sickness dominant. 1695Blackmore Pr. Arth. i. 575 Her Feaverish Thirst drinks down a Sea of Blood. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 324 The Regimen..in the Article of Feverish Rigors. 1802Med. Jrnl. VIII. 428 Its effects in abating the feverish exacerbations are so considerable. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xxxii, In feverish flood, One instant rushed the throbbing blood.
4. Of climate, food, etc.: Apt to cause fever. Of a country: Infested by fever.
1669Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1694) 14 A Fish larger than a Bonetto, but..feaverish Diet. 1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 315 The feverish shore of St. Domingo. 1879Sir G. Campbell White & Black 253 Tracts which are exceedingly feverish in summer. 1885G. S. Forbes Wild Life in Canara 34 The climate of Soopah was occasionally very feverish for Hindoos. |