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feverous, a.|ˈfiːvərəs|
[f. as prec. + -ous.]
†1. Ill of fever; affected by fever; = feverish 1.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xcix. (1495) 665 Swete pomegarnades easith..feuerous men. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 222 It wole make a man yvel disposed & feverous. 1620Venner Via Recta ii. 24 They are lesse hurtfull, for such as are feuorous, then other wines are. 1796Coleridge Dest. Nations Poems I. 206 Cool drops on a feverous cheek.
transf. and fig.1800J. Hurdis Fav. Village 101 The fev'rous kettle with internal evil..totters on the bars. 1820Keats Eve St. Agnes x, A hundred swords Will storm his heart, Love's fev'rous citadel.
2. fig. = feverish 2.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. i. 75, I do feare thee Claudio..Least thou a feauorous life shouldst entertaine. 1649Milton Eikon. xv. (1851) 450 The feverous rage of Tyrannizing. 1749Smollett Regicide v. i, Whose fev'rous life..feels the incessant throb Of ghastly paine! 1817Coleridge Biog. Lit. I. ix. 139 His intellectual powers were never stimulated into fev'rous energy. 1865Ruskin Sesame p. xv, Feverous haste..has become the law of their being.
3. Of, pertaining to, of the nature of, or characteristic of a fever; = feverish 3.
1393Gower Conf. II. 147 This feverous malady. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. xii. 237 Exylynge the feuerous frosty coldnes. 1576Baker Jewell of Health 4 a, The..feverous burning of the Heart. 1645Bp. Hall Remedy Discontents 53 They finde themselves overtaken vvith feverous distempers. 1796–7Coleridge Poems (1862) 30 A dreamy pang in morning's feverous doze. 1820Keats Isabel xliv, What feverous hectic flame Burns in thee, child? 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 230 A night of feverous wakefulness.
4. Apt to cause fever.
1626Bacon Sylva §786 Southern-Winds..without Rain, do cause a Fevorous disposition of the Year. 1827H. Coleridge On Infancy in Lit. World 21 Mar. (1890) The feverous summer's beam alike she dreads. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke xli, Hark! from..Feverous alley..Swells the wail of Englishmen. 1890Longman's Mag. July 284 He was glad..to retire from the feverous autumn.
Hence ˈfeverously adv.
a1631Donne Poems (1650) 77 A malady Desperately hot, or changing feverously. 1829Anniversary, The Poet 249 He, who..feverously grasps at a splendid loss. 1879G. Macdonald P. Faber III. i. 4 Either she would talk feverously, or sit in the gloomiest silence. |