feverishlyadv.

1640 H. Woodward Childes Patrimony ii. v. 109 In case we finde our stomacks clogged with bad humours or feaverishly disposed, we come not at all, or we forbeare to eate.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xvi. 575 The Blood fermenting Feverishly through excess of Sulphur.

1724 J. Maubray Female Physician iii. vi. 80 From putrid Humours, she is (at several Times) feverishly inclined.

1792 London Pract. Physic (ed. 5) ii. viii. 246 If feverishly disposed, Seltzer-water with Hock, if not with Madeira..form the best beverage for drink.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxv. 415 Your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.

1887 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 1 Jan. He was lying on the deck of the ship..feeling feverishly thirsty and terribly sick.

1910 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Nov. 1530/1 The Queen suffered considerable pain..and was by turns feverishly hot and shivering with cold.

1976 Boundary 2 4 907 She felt lousy anyway from her cold, which has made her face all feverishly flushed.

2014 Philippines News Agency (Nexis) 26 Mar. Ebola infection has no vaccine or cure, and the suspected patient would be feverishly ill and have had a direct contact with a confirmed case.

1678 S. Rolls Loyalty & Peace ii. 152 The Pulse of the Nation beat as high and feaverishly as could be, that is all things were done furiously.

1776 D. Bellamy Family-preacher (new ed.) I. i. 11 Many of our neighbours and friends..were feverishly pursuing the mighty trifles of life.

1793 J. Cosens Serm. Useful Subj. II. xxviii. 362 Every man is still feverishly busied in the pursuit of it.

1828 C. Lamb Confessions of Drunkard (rev. ed.) in Elia 2nd Ser. 205 Feverishly looking for this night's repetition of the folly.

1893 Daily News 29 June 6/4 In spite of a slight rally the closing was feverishly weak.

1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree iv. 42 The modern consciousness appears to me..glancing, fitful, like a flame that feverishly gutters.

1988 E. Segal Doctors xii. 138 He read feverishly, scribbling notes on index cards.

2008 B. Parry As Darkness Falls (2009) Prol. 1 Seven long, hellish days and nights of searching and hoping and feverishly following any prospect of a lead, no matter how weak.