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fevern.1

Brit. /ˈfiːvə/, U.S. /ˈfivər/
Forms: early Old English febbr- (inflected form), Old English feber (Northumbrian), Old English febr- (Northumbrian, inflected form), Old English fefr- (inflected form), Old English fefur (rare), Old English feres (genitive, transmission error), Old English ffere (dative, transmission error), Old English (in compounds)–early Middle English fæfer, Old English–early Middle English fefer, Old English–early Middle English fefor, Old English (rare)–early Middle English feofor, Old English (rare)–early Middle English feofr- (inflected form), Old English (rare)–1600s feuer, early Middle English fefere, early Middle English feofer, early Middle English foure, Middle English febre, Middle English fefre, Middle English feuere, Middle English feuir, Middle English feuire, Middle English feure, Middle English fevere, Middle English fevir, Middle English fevyr, Middle English fewer, Middle English ffeuer, Middle English ffeuere, Middle English ffevere, Middle English fievere, Middle English fifere, Middle English fyuer, Middle English fyuere, Middle English fyuirre, Middle English fyvere, Middle English–1500s feuyr, Middle English–1600s feuour, Middle English 1600s–1700s fevour, Middle English– fever, 1500s feuoure, 1500s fiever, 1500s fiver, 1500s fyeuer, 1500s–1600s feauer, 1500s–1600s feauor, 1500s–1600s feauour, 1500s–1600s feeuer, 1500s–1600s fevor, 1500s–1600s fieuer, 1500s–1600s fiuer, 1500s–1700s feavour, 1600s feevor, 1600s feuor, 1600s fevoure, 1600s ffeauor, 1600s ffeavor, 1600s ffever, 1800s faver (English regional (south-western)), 1500s–1700s (1800s English regional (East Anglian)) feaver, 1600s–1700s (1800s regional) feavor; also Scottish pre-1700 feaveir, pre-1700 feueir, pre-1700 fevare, pre-1700 fevir, pre-1700 fewer, pre-1700 fewir, pre-1700 fewire, pre-1700 fewyre, pre-1700 fiver, pre-1700 fivor, pre-1700 fywer; also Irish English (northern) 1900s– faver. N.E.D. (1895) also records a form Middle English feavor.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly (i) a borrowing from Latin. Partly (ii) a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin febris; French fevre.
Etymology: Originally (i) < classical Latin febris (see below). Subsequently reinforced by (ii) Anglo-Norman fever, fevere, fevre, fevir, feivre, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French fievre (French fièvre ) pathological condition involving increased body temperature (mid 12th cent.), (figurative) agitated or excited state (early 14th cent.) < classical Latin febris , of uncertain origin, perhaps from the same Indo-European base as classical Latin fovēre to heat (see fovent adj.), ancient Greek τέϕρα ash (see tephra n.).Parallels in foreign languages. Compare Old Occitan febre , Catalan febre (14th cent.), Spanish fiebre , Portuguese febre , Italian febbre (all 13th cent.). The Latin word was also borrowed into other Germanic languages at an early date. Compare Middle Dutch fieber , Middle Low German fēber , vēver ( > Swedish feber , Danish feber ), Old High German fiebar (Middle High German vieber , fieber , German Fieber ). In these languages the noun is usually neuter, whereas in Old English it is a strong masculine. Specific forms. In the Old English forms, medial -f- represents a voiced labiodental fricative /v/ (compare tavel n.1). Forms such as Old English feber probably show the influence of classical Latin spelling rather than being archaisms. The late Middle English form febre similarly shows remodelling after classical Latin febris. Specific senses. In sense 5 probably after five n. or fiver n., suggested by the similarity in sound; the fuller form fever in the South may allude to the frequent outbreaks of Yellow Fever that occurred in the Southern states of the United States throughout the 19th cent. (compare the variant fever down in Georgia in quot. 1926 at sense 5). For a parallel formation compare Ada from Decatur for a roll of the dice totalling eight.
1. Medicine.
a. An abnormally high body temperature; the condition of having such a temperature (originally understood as a disease in its own right, later as a symptom or sign of disease); an instance of this. Also (frequently with distinguishing word): any of numerous, typically infectious, diseases characterized by this; esp. malaria.intermittent fever, puerperal fever, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, yellow fever, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun]
feverOE
febris1483
feveress1495
calenture1593
febricitation1598
feverishness1638
pyrexia1777
febricity1873
febrility1873
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) xlvi. 92 Gif him fefer derige syle him þas ylcan wyrte wel drincan on wætere.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) lxxii. 112 Wið þam fefore [?a1200 Harl. 6258B ða fifere] þe dæghwamlice oþþe ðy þriddan on man becymð.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) viii. 15 He æthran hyre hand & se fefor [c1200 Hatton feofer] hig forlet.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 61 Þe wes o þe feure.
c1300 St. Barnabas (Laud) l. 56 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 28 Tymon..Þat in a strong acces was of a feuere.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 333 Men of þat lond haueþ no feuere.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 20963 Man þat in feuer was vnfer.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 2546 Þat he was fallen in a feuire.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxv. f. lxxxxiiiiv The Emperoure Charlys remouyd to the Cytie of Mantue, Where he was grudgyd with a feuoure.
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lix A Feuer is an vnnaturall heete grounded in the hert and lyuer.
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. iv. sig. D3v I will once more striue..to..shake this feauer off. View more context for this quotation
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry i. ii. 11 Of the first [kind of sickness] then, which offendeth the whole body, are Feauers of all sorts, as the Quotedian, the Tertian, [etc.].
1678 E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 169 Have a care of coming neare those that have the feavour.
1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 12 It does not welcome its Guests and Strangers with the seasoning distempers of Fevers and Fluxes.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 134 (note) She..died of a fever on the road.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge v. 262 The fever has left him.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits viii. 130 His [sc. an Englishman's] hilarity is like an attack of fever.
1954 K. B. Roberts in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xii. 231 Nowadays the general term, fever, as distinct from specific fevers, means a pathologically elevated body temperature.
2001 New Scientist 13 Oct. (Inside Sci. section) 3/2 Sufferers may experience bouts of fever and pain every few years when the virus starts to actively replicate.
b. In plural. Disease characterized by an abnormally high body temperature or periodically recurring episodes of this, as in malaria; (also) such episodes. Obsolete.
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OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark i. 31 Eleuauit eam..et continuo dimisit eam febris : ahof ða ilca..& reconlice forleort hia hal from februm.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) iv. 38 Ða wæs Simones sweger geswenced on mycelum feferum [c1200 Hatton feofren; L. magnis febribus].
c1300 St. Michael (Laud) l. 385 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 310 Huy farez ase doth þe man þat in ane hache of þe feueres is.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. viii. 14 He say his wyues moder liggynge and shakun with feueris.
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 5583 Þar was a clerk..Þat þe feuers had.
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. xl. f. lx/1 She hadde the febres or axes.
?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. T.i Geue the same vnto the pacient to drinke in the houre suspectid of the feuers approching.
a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Tullibardine) in Poems (2000) I. 146 The feveris, the totteris with the spenȝie fleis.
c. With distinguishing word, esp. in artificial fever, therapeutic fever. Fever, or a fever, caused by or attributed to the administration of drugs, consumption of foodstuffs, or exposure to environmental conditions; (in later use) spec. fever induced deliberately as a method of treating certain diseases (= fever therapy n. at Compounds 6).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > heat treatment > [noun] > induced fever or treatment by
fever1694
pyrogenesis1876
fever therapy1914
1694 J. Forrest Brief Def. Old Method curing Continual Fevers 143 By injecting Gummi..into the Veins of a Living Animal, we can procure an artificial Fever.
1740 J. Martyn tr. H. Boerhaave Treat. Powers Med. 239 Amongst these the principal are some Insects, such as Bees, Grass-hoppers, Ants, Cantharides, Millepedes; which also dissolve the Blood, and accelerate it's motion, and excites a sort of artificial fever [L. febrem quasi artificialem].
1797 Cullen's Clin. Lect. 1765 & 1766 158 A third means is, by exciting an artificial fever, by promoting a determination to the surface, or even bringing on an actual sweat.
1835 H. McCormac Expos. Continued Fever 60 (note) One supposed way, among the ancients, of creating an artificial fever, was by covering the patient with heaps of clothes.
1924 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 70 88 Malaria therapy in general paralysis is justified;..the artificial fever induced is easily, promptly and effectively controlled.
1940 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Feb. 175/1 This is a practical manual which gives a clear account of the varied methods available for producing therapeutic fever.
2018 Translational Oncol. 11 331/2 We used 7 PAMP containing drugs in 19 different combinations to induce therapeutic fever in patients.
2. As a mass or count noun. A state of intense nervous excitement or agitation.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [noun]
fever1340
motiona1398
quotidian?a1439
rufflea1535
commotion1581
fret1582
hurry1600
puddering1603
tumultuousnessa1617
trepidation1625
feverishness1638
boilingc1660
fermentationc1660
tumult1663
ferment1672
stickle1681
fuss1705
whirl1707
flurry1710
sweat1715
fluster1728
pucker1740
flutter1741
flustration1747
flutteration1753
tremor1753
swithera1768
twitteration1775
state1781
stew1806
scrow1808
tumultuating1815
flurrification1822
tew1825
purr1842
pirr1856
tête montée1859
go1866
faff1874
poultry flutter1876
palaver1878
thirl1879
razzle-dazzle1885
nervism1887
flurry-scurry1888
fikiness1889
foment1889
dither1891
swivet1892
flusterment1895
tither1896
overwroughtness1923
mania1925
stumer1932
tizzy1935
two and eight1938
snit1939
tizz1953
tiswas1960
wahala1966
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 29 [Hate of himself] makeþ him ualle ine ane feure oþer ine zuiche zorȝe: þet he nimþ þane dyaþ.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 583 (MED) Hou that This fievere of Jelousie..groweth of sotie Of love.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. l. 4825 (MED) For loue of Cryseyde..he was shake with a feuere newe Þat causid him to be ful pale of hewe.
J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 1047 (MED) Euer louys feuyr Here so scharply held.
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 716 There are..two causes intermingled, which breede this franticke Feauer of our Fraunce.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 133 An enuious feauer Of pale and bloudlesse emulation. View more context for this quotation
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 57 The spirits leap out from their cells of austerity and sobriety, and are warmed into feavers and wildnesses.
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace i. i. 58 This Fever of the soul.
1779 F. Burney Jrnl. Feb. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 251 Both she & Miss S. were in fevers..from apprehensions.
1814 R. Wilson Private Diary II. 353 The fever excited by the news from France has not yet been allayed.
1842 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (ed. 2) V. viii. 120 A mode of life free from tumult, anxiety, excitement, and fever of mind.
1883 E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leics. 424 A fine fox set the field in a fever.
1930 Foreign Affairs 8 290 He managed to keep up amongst the combatants that fever of patriotic passion born of the danger their country had just run.
1974 Times 25 Feb. 9/6 It takes more than a fever of infatuation to turn tribadism into art.
2010 New Yorker 7 June 42/2 A low-grade fever of paranoia runs through the WikiLeaks community.
3. An intense enthusiasm for or interest in a person, pastime, event, etc., typically widespread but short-lived; an obsession, a craze. Frequently with modifying word indicating the person or object of enthusiasm or interest.See also war fever n. at war n.1 Compounds 4.disco fever, election fever, gold fever, etc.: see the first element.
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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > the or a prevailing fashion > fashionable thing or craze
new fangle1548
furor1704
fever1761
rage1780
go1784
the fashion1790
furore1790
fashionablea1800
craze1813
delirament1856
fad1881
fash1895
new thinga1911
flu1943
kick1946
1761 London Chron. 10 Mar. 246/2 The war-fever is now come to a crisis; either it will become more general, or will soon have an end.
1828 R. Green Treat. Cultiv. Ornamental Flowers 42 During the Tulip fever, which raged in Holland, about the middle of the seventeenth century, some splendid varieties were sold for enormous sums of money.
1842 N.Y. Herald 27 Jan. Dickensiana.—Boston and all New-England has caught the Dickens fever.
1879 Scotsman 1 Dec. 4 In the height of the Jingo fever in London, mobs, carefully organised, broke the windows of Mr. Gladstone's house.
1901 Daily News 16 Feb. 6/1 Whilst automobilists in Great Britain have perhaps been saved from the ‘racing fever’.., the French chauffeur has in part been encouraged in his rashness.
1973 Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Feb. 6/1 With the carnival fever in the air, the students at the Cave Hill campus will stage their pre-carnival jump-up..tomorrow.
c1996 C. Crowe Jerry Maguire (film script) 59 San Diego's got a fever for Cush. This stuff tends to happen the night before a draft. People get crazy.
2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Feb. (Travel section) 1/2 Hollywood's seasonal Academy Awards fever.
4. U.S. colloquial. The desire to leave one part of the United States to reside in a specified territory or state, typically one to the west. Frequently with the name of a territory or state as premodifier. historical in later use.Earliest in Ohio fever n. at Ohio n. 2.
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1816 in T. W. Robinson Hist. Morrill (1944) 155 The ‘Ohio Fever’ took away many of our best farmers.
1836 R. Weston Visit to U.S. & Canada iv. 132 This propensity [to emigrate to another district] is called by some ‘the fever’; and at the period I am writing of, the Michigan fever was at its height.
1877 Amer. Agriculturalist Feb. 74/2 A correspondent in New England writes that his neighbors have the ‘Florida Fever’.
1957 J. S. Galbraith Hudson's Bay Comp. v. 107 By the end of the 1830's the ‘Oregon fever’ began to spread among Americans.
1985 Minnesota Hist. 49 192/1 Ford arrived in Minnesota from Saratoga County, New York, in 1850... he had lived on farms until he caught the ‘western fever’.
2002 R. Cohen By Sword iii. xi. 267 With the discovery of gold in the Sacramento Valley in 1848,..tens of thousands of Americans, many of them southerners, [were] infected with ‘California fever’.
5. U.S. In the game of craps: a roll of two dice totalling five.Often (and in earliest use) more fully fever in the south (and variants).
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1894 Washington Times 4 Aug. 2/3 ‘Seben eleben’, ‘Joe dies’, ‘House rent to pay’, ‘Feber in de south’... The noises that are heard are..cries of derision and encouragement uttered by the ‘dead game sports’..enjoying their Sunday game of crap.
1898 Current Lit. June 558/2 Nearly every point on the dice is named. Four is called ‘Little Joe’; five is called ‘Phœbe’ or ‘fever’.
1926 G. Abbott & J. V. A. Weaver Love 'em & leave 'Em ii. 76 Hot dice! (Rolls) Fever! Fever down in Georgia!
1954 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 13 Jan. 9/4 This lad obviously was wise to ‘fever in the south’, knew all about ‘Neenah’, and was aware of the difference between ‘snake eyes’ and ‘box cars’.
2003 F. Scoblete Casino Gambling v. 62 That's what fever means in craps—a ‘five’. So when you put your bet down for a ‘five’, just say: ‘I got a fever for you.’

Phrases

P1. fever and ague and variants: a disease characterized by recurrent episodes of fever or fever and chills, esp. malaria; an instance or case of this. Cf. fever ague n. at Compounds 1. Chiefly U.S. Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > malaria
fever and ague1666
helodes1724
Roman fever1726
malaria1740
marsh fever1752
fen-fever1772
dumb ague1793
malaria fever1818
Panama fever1849
swamp fever1870
melanuric fever1875
tap1882
subtertian1902
1666 Brief Descr. Province Carolina 6 They Sympathize most with the Barmoodoes, which is the healthfullest spot in the World, and yet the last year they had a Feaver and Ague that troubled them much.
1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Apr. vi. 46 I have lately been very ill of a Fever and Ague.
1793 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 3 p. iv Fever and ague..also visits the borders of limpid streams.
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Agy, for ague; fever-nagy, for ‘fever and ague’.
1935 L. I. Wilder Little House on Prairie vii. 51 The bad night air so near the creek had given them fever 'n' ague.
1971 Lippincott's Mag. Feb. 129/1 When the citizens wished to give Thomson City the highest commendation, they did so by saying that ‘fevernagur’ was worse in some other places.
2008 Oregon Hist. Q. 109 40 Referred to as ‘fever and ague’ by contemporaries, malaria took a heavy toll on the Chinookan and Kalapuyan peoples.
P2. fever and ague root: a North American plant used for the treatment of fevers, described as having yellow berries and elongated leaves (probably horse gentian Triosteum perfoliatum); cf. fever-root n. at Compounds 7. rare. Now historical.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts
boneworteOE
springworteOE
atterlothec1000
halswortc1000
bruisewortOE
motherworta1200
panax?a1200
bloodworta1300
serpentinea1400
tutsana1400
wartworta1400
wormseeda1400
grace of God?c1400
nailworta1425
Gratia Dei?c1425
sanguinaryc1440
panacea1522
parthenium1548
woundwort1548
wart-weed1573
cardiaca1578
hermodactyl1578
panacea1590
holy seed1597
whitlow-grass1597
feverwort1611
fever and ague root1676
rattlesnake root1682
snake-root1712
cancer root1714
fever-root1739
strongback1739
rheumatism root1835
heal-all1853
wound-weed1857
1676 T. Glover Acct. Virginia in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 630 The English call it the Fever and Ague-root.
1943 S. E. Massengill Sketch Med. & Pharmacy xi. 162 Thomas Glover describes four other popular simples—dittany, turbith, mechoacon, and the fever and ague root.
1981 S. B. King Darien 9 Among the ‘cures’ tried by this Yankee victim of a Southern malady were sweet weed tea, pepper and water, fever and ague root, wild cherry tree bark in water, tartar, jallop, and sulphur and rum.

Compounds

C1. With postmodifier.See also fever-lurden n., fever-lurgy n.
fever ague n. [after Anglo-Norman fevre ague, Anglo-Norman and Middle French fievre ague (see ague n.) and its etymon post-classical Latin febris acuta (12th cent. in British sources)] now rare (chiefly U.S. in later use) a disease characterized by acute or high fever (perhaps esp. when recurring periodically or combined with chills); esp. malaria; cf. ague n. 1, fever and ague at Phrases 1.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 333 (MED) Men of þat lond [sc. Irland] haueþ no feuere, but onliche þe feuere agu [L. febris..acuta].
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 237 Euel accidentes, as a feuer acu..quakyng, crampe, ravynge, and swowning.
1526 Grete Herball cclxxviii. sig. Q.i/1 To cause one to slepe in a feuer ague confyct the rynde of mandrake with womans mylke and whyte of an egge, and lay it to the foreheed and temples.
1582 P. Levens Right Profitable Bk. All Disseases 41 Against thirst in the tongue,..make syrope with water that barly and Dragagant is sodd in, and it is conueniable for feuer agues.
1797 J. A. Graham Descriptive Sketch Vermont xii. 78 These lakes prove very detrimental to the inhabitants..for they are, at different seasons of the year, seized, and often cut off, with the fever-ague.
1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xvi. 102 Why, you've got th' agur! woman alive! Why, I know the fever-agur as well as I know beans!
1950 M. F. McKeown Them was Days ix. 251 After they got to Pennsylvania, he'd figgered on buying her one, but he got down with the fever ague, just like my folks done.
fever hectic n. [after Middle French fievre ethique (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman as fevere ethique) and its etymon post-classical Latin febris ethica (from late 12th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources)] Obsolete a prolonged, debilitating fever causing wasting of the body; consumption; cf. hectic adj. and n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > other fevers
fever hectica1398
emitrichie1398
hectic1398
etisie1527
emphysode fever1547
frenzy-fever1613
purple fever1623
prunella1656
marcid fever1666
remittent1693
feveret1712
rheumatic fever1726
milk fever1739
stationary fever1742
febricula1746
milky fever1747
camp-disease1753
camp-fever1753
sun fever1765
recurrent fever1768
rose fever1782
tooth-fever1788
sensitive fever1794
forest-fever1799
white leg1801
hill-fever1804
Walcheren fever1810
Mediterranean fever1816
malignant1825
relapsing fever1828
rose cold1831
date fever1836
rose catarrh1845
Walcheren ague1847
mountain fever1849
mill fever1850
Malta fever1863
bilge-fever1867
Oroya fever1873
hyperpyrexia1875
famine-fever1876
East Coast fever1881
spirillum fevera1883
kala azar1883
black water1884
febricule1887
urine fever1888
undulant fever1896
rabbit fever1898
rat bite fever1910
Rhodesian sleeping sickness1911
sandfly fever1911
tularaemia1921
sodoku1926
brucellosis1930
Rift Valley fever1931
Zika1952
Lassa fever1970
Marburg1983
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xxxv. 380 The feuere etike [L. ethica febris] hurtiþ and greueþ þe sadde membres, and haþ þat name ethica of ethis, þat is habitudo ‘hauynge and duringe’, as it were a feuere iturned into duringe disposicioun.
1525 Seynge of Urynes sig. G.iv A feuer Etyke.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lvi. 222 The ful and sappie rootes of Standergrasses..doth norisshe and strengthen the bodie, and is good for them that are fallen into a consumption or feuer Hectique, which haue great neede of nourrishment.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 186 For Feauer-heptickes [1658: hecticks] they prepare them thus.
1676 J. Harris Divine Physician i. ii. 52 And justly it [sc. Envie] is called the rotting of the bones, because like a Fever Hectick it doth consume a Man, and bring him to his end.
fever lent n. [ < fever n.1 + lent adj.2, after Middle French fievre lente (14th cent.)] Obsolete rare (perhaps) a prolonged or low-grade fever.
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a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 54 For the fever lente: qwha that has the fever agu, that men calles lente evell, if the sekeman heved werkes that he may noght slepp, tak [etc.].
c1440 Liber de Diversis Med. 61 (margin) (MED) For þe feuer lente.
C2. attributive with the sense ‘of, relating to, affected by, or caused by fever’, as fever fit, fever-glow, fever patient, etc.
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eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. 14 (table of contents) Læcedomas wiþ ælcre leodrunan & ælfsidenne, þæt is fefercynnes gealdor & dust & drencas & sealf.
OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Deut. (Claud.) xxviii. 22 Slea ðe Drihten mid feforadle & mid cyle & mid hætan.
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 34v Auicen affirmeth the blacke to be incurable, specially when a feuer Pestilence doe reigne.
1609 J. Davies Holy Roode sig. E2v He shaking in a Feauer-fit, While the cold Aire his Wounds confrigerates.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ iii. lxxxii. 713 If there be Feaver vomit.
1681 W. Temple Mem. iii, in Wks. (1731) I. 343 Being free of any Return of his Fever Fits.
1757 E. Barnard Virtue Source of Pleasure 10 His Fever Fires, his Colic Pangs..sharpen his dread.
?1780 Verses sent to Widow B—l—y 7 Few now, I think, consider it of importance to keep their fever patients under nauseating doses of antimonials for days together.
1830 F. D. Hemans Ancestral Song in Songs of Affections 151 All the fever-thirst is still'd.
1842 R. W. Emerson Lect. Transcendentalist in Wks. (1906) II. 289 I wish to exchange..this fever-glow for a benign climate.
1863 W. Phillips Speeches vi. 152 Of which revolution is the fever-spasm.
1877 Gen. Gordon in Pall Mall Gaz. (1884) 4 Mar. 11/1 It is a fever life I lead.
1930 H. L. Hollingworth Abnormal Psychol. iii. 58 Disorders of infection... Fever Delirium..Infection Delirium..Post-infection Psychoses.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 28 Dec. c1/5 Preliminary studies..indicated that antibiotics destroy bacteria more effectively at fever temperatures.
2001 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 27 595 The tragic trek..ended in the fever death of most of the settlers.
2013 K. Black in J. Riff et al. Convenient Care Clinics ix. 101 Shah..promotes a three-phase approach to the fever patient, with specific instructions for each phase.
C3. attributive with the sense ‘relating to or concerned with the treatment and study of fever’, as fever diet, fever hospital, etc.See also fever powder n. at Compounds 6.
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1679 J. Cooke Hundred Select Counsels in tr. J. Hall Select Observ. Eng. Bodies (new ed.) 241 For an honourable Person having the Small-Pox, by several Physicians was appointed what follows: Take of the Fever water.
1762 Public Advertiser 30 Nov. (advt.) Mr. Neeler's..Fever Pills, Eye Drops, Family Salve, and Strengthening Plaisters.
1783 E. Rigby Ess. Use Red Peruvian Bark 33 He took a saline fever medicine and an opening draught before the next fit.
1802 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 8 562 By converting these fever-wards..to the purpose of a general house of recovery for all infectious fever which might occur in the town.
1864 Times 9 Aug. 1/2 The next department will consist of fever nurses..who will undertake the management of all contagious diseases.
1940 Brit. Red Cross Soc. Cookery & Catering Man. (ed. 4) vi. 75 A fever diet should contain a liberal supply of protein sparers, as there is much wasting of the tissues in all fever cases.
1987 E. Newby Round Ireland in Low Gear (1988) xx. 161 Marked on the map north of the Harbour was the workhouse and on the same site, the fever hospital.
2007 Clin. Infectious Dis. 44 392/1 Prevalence was calculated separately for hospital-based fever studies.
C4. Objective, as fever-causing, fever-curing, fever-destroying, fever-producing, etc.
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1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iv. xxxix. 370 We will speak somewhat of certain feaver curing waters, which many use especially for agues.
1691 A. Brown Vindicatory Schedule v. 87 His dexterity of cureing Fevers..are so constantly cured by him at London; that he goes under the name of the Fever cureing Doctor.
1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 83 The spreading Tamarind..shakes..its Fever-cooling Fruit.
1843 Bradford Observer 21 Sept. 5/3 The surveyors have gone a-head with their main-sewer as if there were not such a thing as a stinking, fever-producing canal near the town.
1876 Trans. & Proc. Royal Soc. Victoria 12 10 Is the eucalyptus a fever-destroying tree? or in other words, does it tend to lessen malaria or to destroy miasmatic poison?
1899 Harper's Weekly 28 Oct. 1091/1 It was from this tree—the copal—that, obeying de Sancerre's directions, old Noco had obtained the ingredients for a fever-quieting draught.
1911 Times 7 Feb. 24/4 A new variety of fever-bearing mosquito..has been found.
1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 15 Feb. 383/2 It is interesting that all the fever-producing steroids are also potent inducers of porphyrin synthesis.
2012 Avenue (Univ. of Glasgow) Jan. 3/1 The project will investigate the transmission of fever-causing bacteria.
C5. Instrumental, as fever-parched, fever-ridden, etc.
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eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in J. J. Quinn Minor Lat.-Old Eng. Glossaries in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1956) 78 Febricitantem, feferseoce.
a1596 G. Peele Loue King Dauid & Fair Bethsabe (1599) sig. Cj Lie downe vpon thy bed, Faining thee feuer sicke, and ill at ease.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. i. 140 The wretch whose feuer-weakned ioynts, Like strengthlesse hinges buckle vnder life. View more context for this quotation
1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 26 Like a distempered Body Fever-shaken.
1767 J. C. Huxham tr. J. Huxham Observ. Air & Epidemic Dis. II. 15 Fever infested Children.
1818 P. B. Shelley Marenghi viii The fever-stricken serf.
1864 C. Kingsley Roman & Teuton i. 14 Nothing was left save fever-haunted ruins.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Feb. 4 Vera Cruz, that..fever-smitten port.
1910 E. S. Baird Angels of Savonarola v. 101 Without even a cooling draught of water for their fever-parched lips.
1984 P. O'Brian Far Side of World i. 60 Even if she were going to the fetid, fever-ridden swamps of Java.
2007 I. McDonald Brasyl 264 You have been fever-racked for three days.
C6.
fever blister n. the localized vesicular eruption of herpes simplex, esp. when recurring during a feverish illness of another kind; = cold sore n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > herpes > of lips
fever blister1837
1837 Globe (Washington, D.C.) 21 Sept. Mr. W. knew that the clerk of the committee had a spell of sickness..from his pallid countenance..and from the fever blisters on his lips.
1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 26/3 If you are inclined to ‘cold sores’ or ‘fever blisters’—those most disfiguring and often painful afflictions—look to your diet.
2009 Ophthalmology 116 1553/2 Five patients had a history of recurrent fever blisters.
fever chart n. a record of the changes in an individual patient's body temperature or the changes in body temperature characteristic of a specific disease; also figurative.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical services and administration > [noun] > chart recording course of fever
fever chart1875
1875 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 70 379 The fever chart was positively diagnostic of typhoid fever.
1940 T. S. Eliot East Coker iv. 12 The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.
1958 Spectator 17 Jan. 71/3 A sort of dossier or fever-chart of the controversy which raged intermittently..for several months.
2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts ii. 42 Fever charts permitted plotting of the temperature patterns typical of specific diseases.
fever dream n. [probably after German Fiebertraum (late 18th cent.)] a usually frightening or unsettling dream caused by a fever; (in extended use) a heightened and often disconcerting vision, idea, etc.
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1801 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 737 Even the Forms which struck terror into me in my fever-dreams were still forms of Beauty.
1877 F. E. M. Notley Love's Young Dream III. 172 The mad schemes that crowded into my mind, all mingled with a frenzy of hope and fear, rest still like a fever dream in my memory.
1951 German Q. 24 48 The child is suddenly seized by a violent illness. In a fever dream Pierre sees the flower garden.
1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 22 Mar. Apocalypse Now, his $31.5-million fever dream of the Vietnam war.
2013 B. Stone Everything Store iii. 81 Some of his ideas were so outlandish that employees called them ‘fever dreams’.
fever fly n. a small black fly, Dilophus febrilis (family Bibionidae), the larvae of which sometimes damage the roots of plants such as hops, strawberries, and lawn grasses.The semantic motivation of the scientific name is unclear.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Bibionidae > dilophus vulgaris (fever fly)
fever fly1830
1830 Jrnl. Royal Inst. Great Brit. 1 25 (caption) Side view of the last joint of the leg..of the fever fly (bibio febrilis).
1907 Jrnl. Board Agric. 14 219 From Slough the Board received specimens of the pupæ of the so-called Fever Fly, Dilophus febrilis.
2007 D. V. Alford Pests Fruit Crops v. 177/1 Fever flies (6mm long) are characterized by a circlet of spurs on each front tibia.
fever heat n. [compare German Fieberhitze (17th cent. or earlier)] the elevated temperature of the body occurring in fever; an instance of this; frequently figurative.
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the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [noun]
heatc825
earnestOE
fervour1340
ardourc1386
fever heata1398
burning1398
lowea1425
fervencec1430
ferventnessc1430
flame1548
ardency1549
fervency1554
fire1579
calenture1596
inflammation1600
warmth1600
brimstonea1616
incandescence1656
fervidness1692
candency1723
glow1748
white heat1814
hwyl1899
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [noun] > high temperature
heatc1000
fever heata1398
empyreuma1634
empyreum1651
hyperthermia1886
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xlv. 1309 Vnctuos mete norischeþ feuer hete [L. febrilis caloris].
1628 W. Folkingham Panala Medica viii. 53 Doe they not coole Feuer-heats with Hot purgers?
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella (1849) II. ii. vi. 367 Ximenes whose zeal had mounted up to fever heat..was not to be cooled by any opposition.
1898 Wide World Mag. Nov. 122/1 There were the usual symptoms—quick flushings and fever heats, followed by violent fits of shivering.
1948 G. Frost Flying Squad xi. 127 For two years this crook lived at the fever-heat of suspicion, until one night at the appointed stroke as he drove up for his meet, I drove down the other end of the road.
2003 Sunday Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 9 Nov. (Sport section) 127 The TAB merger-takeover speculation approached fever heat at Doomben yesterday.
fever nest n. now historical and rare a place where malaria or other feverish infection is thought likely to be acquired; = fever trap n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > place
fever nest1844
fever trap1846
1844 Morning Post 26 Sept. 6/1 And a hopeful prospect it certainly is, that our fever nest at Hong-kong is to be guarded and maintained by a continuous series of ‘little wars’.
1911 J. E. C. Flitch Mediterranean Moods 295 I passed a scorching week in July at Oristano, a veritable fever-nest, without suffering any ill effects.
2013 G. C. Boon Technol. & Entrepôt Colonialism Singapore v. 129 The tropics were seen as dangerous fever nests and uninhabitable by Europeans for any prolonged period.
fever pitch n. (as a mass or count noun) a state of intense or extreme agitation or excitement.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > [noun] > a high degree of excitement
heat1588
boiling-point1773
fever pitch1837
fortissimo1856
1837 Courier (London) 27 Apr. There was a wonderful exhiliration about it all. My blood was kept at fever pitch.
1894 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 2 353 No such powerful stimulant needed to be administered to raise the pulse of the business world to a fever pitch.
1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) vi. 131 The excitement rose to fever pitch and, quite suddenly, a flight of arrows appeared, shot by unseen bowmen.
1984 S. Terkel Good War (1985) i. v. 117 I suspected the ration system was a patriotic ploy to keep our enthusiasm at a fever pitch.
2007 Independent 27 Mar. (Extra section) 4/1 Britain's lust for canine crossbreeds has reached fever pitch this year, as dog lovers have discovered the novel joys of the labradoodle.
fever-pitched adj. in a state of intense or extreme agitation or excitement; characterized by such a state.
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1911 Cincinnati Enquirer 29 Oct. b2/3 College directing is not so tumultuous or fever-pitched or replete with the shocks that attend more worldly work.
1990 E. Van Lustbader White Ninja i. 80 There was no chance of being overheard..in this fantastic fever-pitched madhouse.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 12 Sept. (Week in Review section) 13/1 Little did we know that it would take almost a full decade..for anti-Muslim xenophobia to emerge, fully formed and fever-pitched.
fever powder n. [originally after post-classical Latin pulvis febrilis (1669 or earlier)] now historical any of various medicinal powders used for the treatment of fevers.Used esp. with reference to a powder patented by the English physician Robert James (?1703–76), the main ingredient of which was antimony.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > febrifuge or antipyretic > [noun] > powder
fever powder1682
James's powdera1774
salol1887
1682 J. Partridge tr. A. von Mynsicht Thesaurus & armamentarium medico-chymicum v. 109 Pulvis Febrilis probatus, or an approved Feaver-powder.
1748 R. James Diss. Fevers 14 At this Period he took thirty Grains of the Fever Powder.
1853 Trans. Med. Soc. State N.Y. 189 I remarked, jocosely, that I had often feared that they were really fever powders, in other words calculated, in some instances, to perpetuate instead of curing the fever.
1921 A. Dobson Later Ess. 92 He was anxious to give a fair trial to his favourite recipe, that Fever Powder of Dr. James so dear to his contemporaries from royalty downwards.
2014 C. Hamlin More Than Hot iv. 99 By the 1770s whoever and wherever one was in Britain's wide realm, one's fever could be cured by Dr. James's fever powder.
fever-proof adj. now rare (of a person) resistant or immune to an infectious fever or fevers.
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1777 W. Mason Epist. Dr. Shebbeare 27 My muse would think her power enough, Could she make some folks fever-proof.
1864 Mrs. H. Wood Ld. Oakburn's Daughter III. viii. 114 We medical men are feverproof.
1939 World's News (Sydney) 18 Feb. 24/1 ‘Are you fever-proof, Captain?’ Ryder asked. ‘I am not immune. There is no escaping the fever on the coast.’
fever sore n. (a) (perhaps) a chronic ulcer or fistula (obsolete); (b) a fever blister or cold sore.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > alteration of tissue > necrosis > types of
fever sore1731
white gangrene1753
hospital ulcer1799
hospital gangrene1813
mildew-mortification1817
caseation1868
phosphorus necrosis1869
gaseous gangrene1882
coagulation necrosis1883
phossy jaw1889
phos1892
gas gangrene1896
1731 Fog's Weekly Jrnl. 13 Nov. As was Mr. Morrice's Child [cured]..of a dangerous Fever-Sore, settled on its Side.
1881 H. G. Piffard Treat. Materia Medica & Therapeutics Skin 189 Herpes labialis often occurs at the close of some mild febrile affection.., and has received the common names of ‘fever-sore’ and ‘cold-sore’.
2013 C. M. Knox in L. Schoenly & C. M. Knox Essentials Correctional Nursing vii. 134 Other conditions of the mouth that arise with immunosuppression include canker sores (aphthous ulcers) and fever sores (herpes).
fever therapy n. [after German Fiebertherapie (1914 or earlier)] treatment of disease (originally neurosyphilis) by the artificial induction of fever, using pathogenic organisms, vaccines, drugs, or physical methods.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > heat treatment > [noun] > induced fever or treatment by
fever1694
pyrogenesis1876
fever therapy1914
1914 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 June 1934/1 The fever therapy with staphylococcus vaccine, with nuclein or salvarsan might be usefully combined with the tuberculin-fever therapy.
1954 K. B. Roberts in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xii. 238 Fever therapy does, however, seem to be useful in the treatment of chronic gonorrhœa and the tertiary stages of syphilis.
2018 Translational Oncol. 11 334/1 In this work we present observations with a focus on the safety of fever therapy in cancer patients using combinations of approved drugs.
fever trap n. now historical and rare a place where malaria or other feverish infection is thought likely to be acquired; = fever nest n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > place
fever nest1844
fever trap1846
1846 Examiner 22 Aug. 531/2 If a prison were built on such a plan, with such a site, it would not stand a twelvemonth against the clamour that the humanity of the country would raise against such a fever trap.
1891 C. Creighton Hist. Epidemics Brit. 589 More recent visitors..have remarked upon their towns and villages as fever-traps.
2011 J. Neuberger in Time Out London Walks (ed. 3) II. 147/2 Beautifully designed, it was nevertheless a fever trap, for only poor women went to the lying-in hospitals.
C7. In names of plants and plant products used to treat fever.See also feverfew n.
fever bark n. now historical (originally) cinchona bark (also called Jesuits' bark, Peruvian bark); (in later use also) any of several other kinds of bark used for the treatment of fevers; (occasionally also) a tree providing such a bark (cf. fever tree n. 1).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > febrifuge or antipyretic > [noun] > plant-derived
ague tree1597
diaprune1625
fever bark1658
Peruvian bark1663
quinquina1681
quinaquina1708
Angostura bark1789
Angostura1794
cinchona1800
cinchona-bark1811
quinia1823
quinine1824
cinchonine1825
quina1825
quinina1825
cinchonia1831
fever grass1875
quinetum1875
parsley camphor1879
parthenin1885
parthenicine1888
artemisinin1979
the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > wood > [noun] > bark > type of
fever bark1658
scale-bark1884
stone-bark1884
1658 Mercurius Politicus 9–16 Dec. 77 (advt.) The Feaver Bark, commonly called The Jesuites Powder, which is so famous for the cure of all manner of Agues, brought over by James Thompson, Merchant of Antwerp.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 205 A kind of fever bark is obtained..from Rondeletia febrifuga.
1891 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener & Home Farmer 7 May 870/1 We have several of these [sc. bitter barks], such as Alstonia, Tabernæmontana, Petalostigma, Chionanthus, &c. which usually go under such names as Quinine, or Fever Barks.
1920 H. G. Greenish Text-bk. Materia Med. (ed. 3) vii. 268 The latter bark [sc. that of Alstonia constricta] is also known as Australian fever bark.
1973 Frederick (Maryland) Post 1 Sept. a1/3 This insect has been reported also on pinckneya or fever-bark.
2002 A. Beard tr. M. Hesse Alkaloids xi. 366 It appears that earliest knowledge of fever bark was confined to the region of Loja, the southernmost province of Ecuador.
feverbush n. U.S. (now historical and rare) (a) the spice bush Lindera benzoin; (b) the winterberry Ilex verticillata; (c) (more fully California feverbush) a garrya, esp. Garrya fremontii or G. elliptica.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > names applied to various medicinal trees or shrubs
wild senna1750
feverbush1778
1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. 510 The Fever Bush grows about five or six feet high; its leaf is like that of a lilach, and it bears a reddish berry of spicy flavour.
1830 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. II. 253 Prinos, L. Black Alder, Fever bush, Winter berry.
1880 Therapeutic Gaz. 15 Jan. 3/1 The Garrya Plant, called by the ranchmen and woodchoppers..‘The California Fever Bush’, is found on the highest peaks and ranges.
1920 C. F. Saunders Useful Wild Plants U.S. & Canada 206 The shrub [sc. Garrya elliptica] is known locally as Quinine-bush and Fever-bush.
1974 J. B. Lust Herb Bk. ii. 223 Common names [of Ilex verticillata]: Winterberry, black-alder, brook alder, false alder, feverbush, striped alder.
2016 S. Belsinger & A. O. Tucker Culinary Herbal 247/2 Spicebush is also known as Benjamin bush, feverbush, or wild allspice.
fever grass n. chiefly Caribbean lemon grass, Cymbopogon citratus.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > febrifuge or antipyretic > [noun] > plant-derived
ague tree1597
diaprune1625
fever bark1658
Peruvian bark1663
quinquina1681
quinaquina1708
Angostura bark1789
Angostura1794
cinchona1800
cinchona-bark1811
quinia1823
quinine1824
cinchonine1825
quina1825
quinina1825
cinchonia1831
fever grass1875
quinetum1875
parsley camphor1879
parthenin1885
parthenicine1888
artemisinin1979
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > of unidentified type
fever grass1875
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > medicine composed of a plant > [noun] > plant used in medicine > specific plant
hyssopc1000
sionc1000
tunhoofc1000
poppyOE
camomilea1300
orobusa1398
tithymala1400
tutsana1400
Thapsiac1400
melissa?a1425
hallelujahc1425
turmeric1538
succory1541
balin1546
English treacle1548
treacle mustard1548
rhabarb1558
Thlaspi1562
treacle clover1562
holy herb1567
lungwort1578
solanum1578
lightwort1587
neezing wort1591
Alexander's Foot1597
burst-wort1597
symphonia1597
wound-herb1597
leper's herb1600
all bones1633
schoenanth1633
nip1651
wound-shrub1659
hermodact1678
jusquiam1727
Algerian tea1728
Australian tea1728
strongback1739
silphium1753
belladonna1788
foxglove1801
ledum1822
yercum1826
lungs of oak1856
strong man's weed1864
conium1866
short-long1871
fever grass1875
1875 Sugar Cane 1 Nov. 589 To this add 4lbs. of balm or fever grass.
1930 R. Macaulay Staying with Relations ix. 127 The fever grass, that one eats to cure malaria.
2000 N.Y. Times 13 Dec. f7/1 He said some of his best customers come from the Caribbean, where lemon grass is known as fever grass.
fever nut n. a bonduc or nicker nut (seed of the tropical shrub Caesalpinia bonduc).
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1848 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 17 i. 397 Cæsalpinia bonducella: ‘Kuronj’. The fever-nut: probably introduced.
1907 Jrnl. Soc. Chem. Industry 30 Mar. 275/1 Cæsalpinia bonducella Flem.—The common name for the seed of this plant is bonduc seed or fever nut.
2010 T. Gyatso & C. Hakim Essentials Tibetan Trad. Med. iii. 250 Fever nut may be available from Ayurvedic herbalists as latakaranja.
fever-root n. U.S. (now historical) any of several North American plants; esp. (a) the horse gentian Triosteum perfoliatum; (b) pinedrops, Pterospora andromedea.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts
boneworteOE
springworteOE
atterlothec1000
halswortc1000
bruisewortOE
motherworta1200
panax?a1200
bloodworta1300
serpentinea1400
tutsana1400
wartworta1400
wormseeda1400
grace of God?c1400
nailworta1425
Gratia Dei?c1425
sanguinaryc1440
panacea1522
parthenium1548
woundwort1548
wart-weed1573
cardiaca1578
hermodactyl1578
panacea1590
holy seed1597
whitlow-grass1597
feverwort1611
fever and ague root1676
rattlesnake root1682
snake-root1712
cancer root1714
fever-root1739
strongback1739
rheumatism root1835
heal-all1853
wound-weed1857
1739 J. Clayton & J. F. Gronovius Flora Virginica I. 23 Triosteospermum perfoliatum... Feverroot & Cinque.
1830 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. II. 68 Pterospora Andromedea... Dragon Root, Fever Root, Albany Beechdrop.
1994 J. S. Haller Med. Protestants i. 9 Mechoacan, feverroot and ague root, lemnian earth, alum, and cancerroot abounded in Virginia.
2009 S. T. Runkel & A. F. Bull Wildflowers Iowa Woodlands (ed. 2) 115 (margin) False coffee Triosteum perfoliatum L. Other common names fever root, feverwort, horse gentian.
fever twig n. U.S. (now historical and rare) bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, a twining plant native to North America.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > non-British climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > North American
woodbine1624
Virginia vine1629
staff-tree1633
Virginia creeper?1703
climbing vine1760
mayflower1778
pepper vine1783
arbutus1785
trailing arbutus1785
pipe vine1803
Ampelopsis1805
ground-laurel1814
waxwork1818
ivory plum1828
fever twig1830
yerba buena1847
mountain pink1850
New England mayflower1855
creeping snowberry1856
Virginian creeper1856
May blossom1871
sand verbena1880
staff-vine1884
1830 C. S. Rafinesque Med. Flora U.S. II. 206 Celastrus scandens, L. Fevertwig, Staff vine, Bittersweet.
1904 Floral Life Oct. 114/2 The first is a native climber..and is known under several popular names, the fever-twig, shrubby and false bittersweet, Roxbury waxwork, climbing staff tree or vine.
2007 H. C. Covey Afr. Amer. Slave Med. v. 82 Bittersweet nightshade is known by a variety of names including bittersweet, fever twig, and woody nightshade, among others.
fever-weed n. Obsolete rare a plant native to tropical America and cultivated elsewhere as a culinary herb, Eryngium foetidum (family Apiaceae); also called culantro, long coriander, Mexican coriander.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Umbelliferae (umbellifers) > [noun] > eryngium
eryngium1578
hundred-headed thistle1578
rattlesnake weed1651
Daneweed1737
fever-weed1759
friar's goose1861
spirit weed1926
1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) at Eryngium Stinking Eryngo having narrow sawed Leaves, commonly called Feverweed.
1855 H. Clarke New Dict. Eng. Lang. Fever-weed, an eryngium.
feverwood n. [in sense (a) after Spanish palo de calenturas (see fever tree n.)] (a) cinchona bark (cf. fever bark n.) (obsolete rare); (b) U.S. the spice bush Lindera benzoin (cf. feverbush n. (a)) (now historical and rare).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > spice-bush
feverwood1682
spice-wood1756
spice-bush1770
allspice1830
1682 tr. N. de Blégny Eng. Remedy: or, Talbor's Wonderful Secret 4 However the matter be, they begin now to call it in Latin, Cortex febrilis; and the Spaniards name it, Palo de Culenturas, i. e. Feaver-wood.
1818 W. P. C. Barton Veg. Materia Medica U.S. II. 91 Laurus benzoin. Spice-wood. Allspice-bush. Fever-bush. Wild Allspice. Spice-berry. Fever-wood.
1896 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 18 Apr. 306/2 During the American war, when allspice was difficult to obtain in the United States, a substitute was found in the berries of laurus benzoin, Linn., commonly known as ‘Wild Allspice, Fever-wood, Benjamin-bush and Spice-bush’.
2014 E. Small N. Amer. Cornucopia 629 Spicebush (spice bush) is also known as American spicebush, benjamin bush,..fever bush, feverwood, [etc.].
feverwort n. now historical and rare (a) common centaury, Centaurium erythraeum; (b) U.S. the horse gentian Triosteum perfoliatum (cf. fever-root n. (a)); (c) U.S. any of several plants of the genus Eupatorium, esp. E. perfoliatum (see boneset n. 2).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > names applied to various plants or parts
boneworteOE
springworteOE
atterlothec1000
halswortc1000
bruisewortOE
motherworta1200
panax?a1200
bloodworta1300
serpentinea1400
tutsana1400
wartworta1400
wormseeda1400
grace of God?c1400
nailworta1425
Gratia Dei?c1425
sanguinaryc1440
panacea1522
parthenium1548
woundwort1548
wart-weed1573
cardiaca1578
hermodactyl1578
panacea1590
holy seed1597
whitlow-grass1597
feverwort1611
fever and ague root1676
rattlesnake root1682
snake-root1712
cancer root1714
fever-root1739
strongback1739
rheumatism root1835
heal-all1853
wound-weed1857
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > hemp-agrimony
holy ropec1485
eupatory1542
agrimony1578
Eupatorium1578
bastard hemp1597
water agrimony1597
hemp-agrimony1760
hempweed1796
joe-pye weed1818
trumpet-weed1830
feverwort1836
gravel-root-
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sacotin, feauerwort.
1664 Method Chem. Philos. & Physick xxi. 203 Centaurea minor or Feverwort, which they call fel terrae, is counted a secret in the Jaundies.
1728 A. Bedford Animadversions Sir I. Newton's Bk. 161 Pliny saith of him [sc. Chiron]..that when he was wounded, he was cured or cured himself by the Herb Feverwort, which..from him was called Centaurea.
1804 Trans. Dublin Soc. 1803 4 21 (table) Triosteum. Fever-wort.
1818 R. Sweet Hortus Suburbanus Londinensis 181 (table) Eupatorium..perfoliatum... Feverwort.
1836 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Plants (rev. ed.) 170 Triosteum, feverwort.
1995 Audubon Nov. 46/1 Sometimes called feverwort, it [sc. boneset]..is employed as a home remedy against flu.
2009 S. T. Runkel & A. F. Bull Wildflowers Iowa Woodlands (ed. 2) 115 (margin) False coffee Triosteum perfoliatum L. Other common names fever root, feverwort, horse gentian.., wild ipecac.
2015 J. J. Pursell Herbal Apothecary 85/1 Centaury Centaurium erythraea. Also called European centaury, centaurium, century, feverwort, bitter herb, banwort.

Derivatives

ˈfever-like adv. and adj. (a) adv.feverishly (obsolete); (b) adj.relating to or of the nature of a fever; feverish.
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1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 350 And feuerlike I feede my fancie still, Wich such repast, as most empaires my helth.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion vii. Argt. When the Higre takes her, How feuer-like the sicknes shakes her.
1850 Daily News 12 Sept. 5/6 Sometimes also fœtid and fever-like smells, issue from the bags.
1958 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 Mar. 576/2 Their professional and technical teams are always ready to investigate outbreaks of fever-like diseases.
2007 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 196 593/1 They had malaria; other causes of fever-like tuberculosis, typhoid fever, or urinary tract infection.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

fevern.2

Forms: late Middle English feuer.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French fever.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman fever, fevere, Anglo-Norman and Middle French fevre smith (late 12th cent. in Old French) < classical Latin fabr- , faber craftsman, artisan (see fabric n.).Compare Old Occitan fabre, Catalan fabre, Italian fabbro (all 13th cent.), Spanish †fabro (late 15th cent.). Attested as a surname from the 13th cent. (e.g. Willelmus le Fevre (1233), Adam le Fevere (1275)), although this probably reflects currency of the noun in Anglo-Norman rather than in Middle English.
Obsolete.
A smith.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > forger or smith
smithOE
smithier1379
forgerc1380
encloser1382
hammersmith1382
metalsmithc1384
fevera1450
hammerman1483
smithera1525
anvil-beater1677
metalworker1851
dinger1863
drummer1881
a1450 in L. T. Smith York Plays (1885) p. xxii Feuers..Couureours..[etc.].
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

feverv.

Brit. /ˈfiːvə/, U.S. /ˈfivər/
Forms: see fever n.1; also Old English febrende (Northumbrian, present participle), Old English feforian, Old English fefrian, early Middle English feferȝindum (present participle, dative).
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: fever n.1
Etymology: < fever n.1Compare Old French fievrier , Middle French fievroyer (early 13th cent.), Old Occitan febrejar , Catalan febrejar (15th cent.), German fiebern (18th cent.), all in the sense ‘to be affected with a fever’. Apparently unattested between the Old English period and the 17th cent.; however, currency in Middle English is implied by quot. a1450 at fevering n. Compare also Old English feferiende (early Middle English feferȝende ) person who has a fever, person who is feverish (compare -end suffix1). The Old English variant reading in quot. ?a1200 at fevering adj. shows this noun.
1.
a. intransitive. To become feverish, to be affected with a fever.In Old English only in present participle.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > have fever [verb (intransitive)]
feverOE
febricitate1656
OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: Mark i. 30 Decumbebat autem socrus Simonis febricitans : gelegen wæs ða swer Symones febrende wæs.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) cvii. 152 Genim þysse wyrte wos.., syle þam þoligendan on wearmum wætere ðicgean gyf he feforgende sy.
1764 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery III. 380 She fevered, and died the sixth day after delivery.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 171 He never fevered with the fracture, and very soon recovered.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 5 Jan. (1941) 3 I waked..for five or six hours I think, then fevered a little.
1895 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Jan. 73/2 He fevered, was put to bed, and at night neck, shoulders, and back and front of chest were found covered over with chicken-pox papules.
1954 ‘K. Markandaya’ Nectar in Sieve ii. xxvii. 238 When the day came for buying..medicines for Nathan while he fevered, there would be nothing.
2005 J. Sparks Raccoon John Smith iv. 114 For over a month..he fevered, vomited, smothered, and sweated with the influenza.
b. intransitive. figurative. To burn passionately, esp. with desire, longing, etc.In quot. 1820 to fever out: (of the eyes) to start out as if with a fever.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > be or become excited [verb (intransitive)]
stira1000
resea1250
to move one's blood (also mood)c1330
fluster1613
fever1632
foment1646
ferment1671
animate1779
self-excite1832
effervesce1850
to turn on1966
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [verb (intransitive)] > by size, shape, etc.
starta1393
sparkle1594
startle1600
settle1615
pop1680
fever1820
largen1844
bug1868
1632 P. Massinger Emperour of East v. iii. sig. Mv I feuer In one vnchaste desire.
1766 W. Falconer Demagogue 8 By sympathy she [sc. America] fevers with her fires, Burns as she burns, and as she dies expires.
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV cxxii. 64 Of its own beauty is the mind diseased, And fevers into false creation.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 153 This passion..made..His eyes to fever out, his voice to cease.
1834 B. Disraeli Revolutionary Epick iii. vii. 168 That eager blood, That in old days..So oft hath fevered o'er victorious dreams.
1933 N. Amer. Rev. May 385/2 Internally she fevers with conflicting desires and opinions.
1985 T. Angus et al. Canadians All 5 vii. 36 He..set out for the goldfields of California. Not that he fevered for gold. Instead, he became a photographer of the claims staked out on goldfields.
2.
a. transitive. To affect with qualities resembling those of a fever; esp. to elevate in intensity, temperature, etc., to heighten emotionally.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iii. xiii. 140 The white hand of a Lady Feauer thee. View more context for this quotation
1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ix. 430 His words..feauered her all over.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. 265 To his licentious wish each must be blest, With joy be fevered.
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 52 The ruddy tide..Fever'd his high conceit of such a bride.
1842 M. F. Tupper Proverbial Philos. 2nd Ser. 99 And the very sense of thirst hath been fevered from affection into passion.
1877 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 25 Apr. 5/3 This old cancerous sore..has sickened and fevered the body politic for centuries.
1921 Amer. Bar Assoc. Jrnl. 7 445/1 Is it surprising that so portentous a change should have fevered his brain and disturbed his mental equilibrium?
1990 T. C. Boyle East is East i. 23 Others..needed just the opposite—conviviality, uproar, crippling gossip,..to settle brains fevered by dreams of grandeur.
2004 Poetry Ireland Rev. No. 78. 72 Birds wake remembering the river, A pink hint of false dawn fevering the surface.
b. transitive. literal. To put or throw into a fever; to affect with fever.In quot. 1680: to put into by means of a fever.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > afflict with fever [verb (transitive)]
fever1680
1680 P. Rycaut Mem. cont. Hist. Turks 229 in Hist. Turkish Empire His passion..feavered him into a desperate sickness.
1855 Daily News 4 Oct. 2/1 The hot march fevered his body, weakened after many wounds.
1875 Times 9 July 5/6 To the Chinaman the heat which thins the blood and fevers the brain..of the inhabitants of a colder climate is but an accustomed and genial warmth.
1922 McClure's Mag. Dec. 75/1 Soon, in her dark arms, he slept. But his wound fevered him.
2005 W. M. Gear & K. O. Gear People of Moon xxii. 209 He was mauled by a bear, you see. The attack fevered him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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