feverousadj.

Brit.

/ˈfiːv(ə)rəs/, U.S.

/ˈfiv(ə)rəs/

Forms: see fever n.¹ and -ous suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: fever n.¹, -ous suffix.

Etymology: < fever n.¹ + -ous suffix, partly after Anglo-Norman feverous, feverus, fevrus, Anglo-Norman and Middle French fievrous, Middle French fievreux (Old French fevros ; French fiévreux ) having the symptoms of fever, ill with a fever (late 12th cent. in Old French), excited, nervous, agitated (late 15th cent.), apt to cause fever (1572 in the passage translated in quot. 1603 at sense 4). Compare feverish adj. and earlier fevery adj.Compare Old Occitan febros, Catalan febrós (15th cent.), Spanish fiebroso (15th cent. in a few isolated attestations as febroso, subsequently from the 20th cent.), Italian febbroso (early 16th cent.), all in the sense ‘having the symptoms of fever’.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of fever; of the nature of or involving fever.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective]

feverousa1393

feverisha1398

febrousc1425

febrilous1651

febrile1666

febrific1749

pyrexial1787

pyrectic1822

pyretic1850

post-febrile1874

the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [adjective]

hotOE

anguishous?c1225

fire-burningc1275

burninga1340

ardentc1374

warm1390

fervent14..

fieryc1430

fired1561

feverous1576

glowinga1577

fervorous1602

ferventeda1627

tropica1631

torrid1646

fervid1656

candenta1687

ardurousa1770

tropical1795

aestuous1844

thermal1866

thermonous1888

the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > (of love) ardent or passionate

ardentc1374

rapta1500

passionate1534

feverous1576

on flame1656

ardurousa1770

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 589 This fieverous maladie.

a1456 (a1449) J. Lydgate Gloriosa Dicta sunt de Te (Trin. Cambr.) l. 165 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 321 Vnkynde heetes of ffeuerous pestylence.

c1490 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 206 Begynnyng of eche ffeverus Accesse.

?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. gg.i^v Exylynge the feuerous [printed fenerous] frosty coldnes.

1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health i. f. 4^v The..feuerous burning of the heart.

1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. x. 55 They finde themselves overtaken with feverous distempers.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Poems 35 A dreamy pang in Morning's fev'rous doze.

1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 71 What feverous hectic flame Burns in thee, child?

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 13 A night of feverous wakefulness.

1936 PMLA 51 973 During the summer Percy was ill with a feverous complaint.

1975 Nineteenth-cent. Fiction 30 37 Lydgate has chosen a provincial community rather than London for the scene of his work;..his local effort is on feverous disease.

2008 Daily Mirror (Ulster ed.) (Nexis) 1 Jan. 17 I have never received so many calls about flu and other feverous illness.

a. Having or showing the symptoms of fever. Formerly also: †ill with a fever (obsolete). = feverish adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > affected with

feveryOE

feverousa1398

febricitant1599

mumpsick1599

fevered1605

febrient1651

febrile1651

feverish1680

febriculose1884

enfevered1893

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xcix. 990 Swete [pomegranates] eseþ feuerowse men [lasse] þan doþ þe soure.

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 222 It wole make a man yuel disposid & feuerous.

?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 80 (MED) Ȝyf þe feuerous man to drinken þis sabras afornn his akcesse.

?1528 J. Skelton Dyuers Balettys & Dyties xii Allectuary arrectyd to redres These feuerous axys the dedely wo & payne [etc.].

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iv. ix. 188 Neither is there any exact and perfect rest from being feuerous.

1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 24 They are lesse hurtfull, for such as are feuorous, then other wines are.

1764 Parthenia ii. iv. 23 'Twas as honey to the blister'd tongue, As oil upon the parched countenance, Swaging the feverous soul.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations in Poems I. 206 Cool drops on a feverous cheek.

1860 B. Porteus Sir Ewain 111 The feverous brow turns aching from the light.

1950 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 12 May 18/5 Only a mother's breast Can pillow the feverous head.

1977 Statesville (N. Carolina) Record & Landmark 26 Oct. 14 a/3 These hands have cooled feverous brows.

2009 Jrnl. Irish Stud. 24 42 Jim, feverous, drunk and exhausted, promised to do so.

†b. In extended use. As if affected by the symptoms of fever. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > lively, vivacious, or animated > specifically of things

rattlinga1398

quickly1435

feverous1591

sprightful1595

sprightly1598

vegetea1643

bright-eyed1652

vivacious1670

sparkyc1865

1591 King James VI & I tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Furies in Poet. Exercises sig. D4 In spite of my Most carefull studies ay, My verse are feuerous now become.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 59 Some say, the Earth was feuorous, And did shake.

1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. ii. 22 Not the milk of human kindness, but the feverous blood of savage ferocity seemed to flow from her heart.

1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iii. 101 The fev'rous kettle with internal evil..totters on the bars.

1866 Liverpool Mercury 13 July 3/6 The stars sparkle on us 'tween the gaps O' the crudded clouds, moon-blanched (oft crimsoned o'er With the feverous glare of city fires).

3. figurative. Excited, nervous, restless; agitated, frantic; = feverish adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > nervously excited or agitated

high-wrought1579

feverous1587

tremulous1611

feverish1637

overwound1640

gestient1644

overwrought1648

twittering1648

fevereda1657

tumultuous1667

wrought-up1688

flustered1743

trepidatinga1774

flurried1775

wrought1778

riled1825

tête montée1825

worked up1831

tumultuating1854

trepidant1891

tremorous1897

wroughted1905

goosy1906

hotted-up1923

steamed1923

spooky1926

antsy-pantsy1944

antsy1950

agitato1964

amped1967

wired1970

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xix. 349 By Pleasure they ment the delights of the mynde, and not the feuerous pleasures [Fr. plaisirs fieureux] of the bodie.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 73 I do feare thee Claudio..Least thou a feauorous life shouldst entertaine.

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xv. 141 The feverous rage of Tyrannizing.

1749 T. Smollett Regicide v. i. 66 Whose fev'rous Life..feels th' incessant Throb Of ghastly Pannic!

1780 Mirror No. 102. (1781) III. 264 The prodigal is running his feverous and distempered course.

1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. ix. 139 His intellectual powers were never stimulated into fev'rous energy.

1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies (ed. 2) Pref. p. xv Feverous haste..has become the law of their being.

1921 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 31 July (Mag. section) 3/1 Many also were the cheruby boys and girls in that stream of feverous humanity.

1973 Rev. Eng. Stud. 24 484 An essay..traces the moulding effect of Donne's creative intelligence on the random intensity of a feverous imagination.

2018 Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) (Nexis) 6 Feb. 1 I wonder what it would take to produce screams and shouts, hot tempers and feverous excitement.

4. Of climate, food, etc.: apt to cause fever; = feverish adj. 4a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > producing

feverous1603

feverish1653

febrific1710

febrifacient1803

pyrogenetic1871

pyrogenic1871

pyrogenous1874

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 700 Simple viands, which be holsome and healthfull, as preservatives hanging about our necks, against these sumptuous, surfetous & feaverous [Fr. fiebureuses] feasts.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §786 Southern-Winds..without Rain, do cause a Fevorous disposition of the Year.

1761 M. Cooper Poems Several Occasions 80 Summer suns Dart down the feverous beam.

1827 H. Coleridge On Infancy in Lit. World 21 Mar. (1890) The feverous summer's beam alike she dreads.

1890 Longman's Mag. July 284 He was glad..to retire from the feverous autumn.

1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Mar. 145/1 Into the feverous coast of Central America Scotland poured all her capital and many of her lives.

1986 Chaucer Rev. 20 223 The Black Prince was mortally ill from..amoebic dysentery during the hot, feverous Iberian summer.

2013 US Fed News (Nexis) 12 Sept. [She] arrived from the temperate maritime climate of England, where the rare summer rise above 80 degrees is considered feverous.

Derivatives

ˈfeverously adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adverb]

feverouslya1631

feverishly1640

the mind > emotion > excitement > [adverb]

raisedly1591

animatedly1783

feverously1829

excitedly1852

ebulliently1887

effervescingly1898

a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 55 A maladie Desperately hot, or changing feaverously.

1829 T. D. Poet in A. Cunningham Anniversary 249 He, who..feverously grasps at a splendid loss.

1912 Economist 2 Mar. 462/1 The Committee was feverously anxious to prove that it was not composed of Jews.

2012 Jrnl. Aesthetic Educ. 46 iii. 30 He latched on to women and was feverously jealous.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	feverous
释义	feverousadj. Brit. /ˈfiːv(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˈfiv(ə)rəs/ Forms: see fever n.¹ and -ous suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: fever n.¹, -ous suffix. Etymology: < fever n.¹ + -ous suffix, partly after Anglo-Norman feverous, feverus, fevrus, Anglo-Norman and Middle French fievrous, Middle French fievreux (Old French fevros ; French fiévreux ) having the symptoms of fever, ill with a fever (late 12th cent. in Old French), excited, nervous, agitated (late 15th cent.), apt to cause fever (1572 in the passage translated in quot. 1603 at sense 4). Compare feverish adj. and earlier fevery adj.Compare Old Occitan febros, Catalan febrós (15th cent.), Spanish fiebroso (15th cent. in a few isolated attestations as febroso, subsequently from the 20th cent.), Italian febbroso (early 16th cent.), all in the sense ‘having the symptoms of fever’. 1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of fever; of the nature of or involving fever. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] feverousa1393 feverisha1398 febrousc1425 febrilous1651 febrile1666 febrific1749 pyrexial1787 pyrectic1822 pyretic1850 post-febrile1874 the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [adjective] hotOE anguishous?c1225 fire-burningc1275 burninga1340 ardentc1374 warm1390 fervent14.. fieryc1430 fired1561 feverous1576 glowinga1577 fervorous1602 ferventeda1627 tropica1631 torrid1646 fervid1656 candenta1687 ardurousa1770 tropical1795 aestuous1844 thermal1866 thermonous1888 the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective] > (of love) ardent or passionate ardentc1374 rapta1500 passionate1534 feverous1576 on flame1656 ardurousa1770 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. l. 589 This fieverous maladie. a1456 (a1449) J. Lydgate Gloriosa Dicta sunt de Te (Trin. Cambr.) l. 165 in Minor Poems (1911) i. 321 Vnkynde heetes of ffeuerous pestylence. c1490 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 206 Begynnyng of eche ffeverus Accesse. ?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. gg.i^v Exylynge the feuerous [printed fenerous] frosty coldnes. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health i. f. 4^v The..feuerous burning of the heart. 1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. x. 55 They finde themselves overtaken with feverous distempers. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Poems 35 A dreamy pang in Morning's fev'rous doze. 1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 71 What feverous hectic flame Burns in thee, child? 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 13 A night of feverous wakefulness. 1936 PMLA 51 973 During the summer Percy was ill with a feverous complaint. 1975 Nineteenth-cent. Fiction 30 37 Lydgate has chosen a provincial community rather than London for the scene of his work;..his local effort is on feverous disease. 2008 Daily Mirror (Ulster ed.) (Nexis) 1 Jan. 17 I have never received so many calls about flu and other feverous illness. 2. a. Having or showing the symptoms of fever. Formerly also: †ill with a fever (obsolete). = feverish adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > affected with feveryOE feverousa1398 febricitant1599 mumpsick1599 fevered1605 febrient1651 febrile1651 feverish1680 febriculose1884 enfevered1893 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. xcix. 990 Swete [pomegranates] eseþ feuerowse men [lasse] þan doþ þe soure. a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 222 It wole make a man yuel disposid & feuerous. ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 80 (MED) Ȝyf þe feuerous man to drinken þis sabras afornn his akcesse. ?1528 J. Skelton Dyuers Balettys & Dyties xii Allectuary arrectyd to redres These feuerous axys the dedely wo & payne [etc.]. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke iv. ix. 188 Neither is there any exact and perfect rest from being feuerous. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta ii. 24 They are lesse hurtfull, for such as are feuorous, then other wines are. 1764 Parthenia ii. iv. 23 'Twas as honey to the blister'd tongue, As oil upon the parched countenance, Swaging the feverous soul. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations in Poems I. 206 Cool drops on a feverous cheek. 1860 B. Porteus Sir Ewain 111 The feverous brow turns aching from the light. 1950 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 12 May 18/5 Only a mother's breast Can pillow the feverous head. 1977 Statesville (N. Carolina) Record & Landmark 26 Oct. 14 a/3 These hands have cooled feverous brows. 2009 Jrnl. Irish Stud. 24 42 Jim, feverous, drunk and exhausted, promised to do so. †b. In extended use. As if affected by the symptoms of fever. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > lively, vivacious, or animated > specifically of things rattlinga1398 quickly1435 feverous1591 sprightful1595 sprightly1598 vegetea1643 bright-eyed1652 vivacious1670 sparkyc1865 1591 King James VI & I tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Furies in Poet. Exercises sig. D4 In spite of my Most carefull studies ay, My verse are feuerous now become. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) ii. iii. 59 Some say, the Earth was feuorous, And did shake. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams III. ii. 22 Not the milk of human kindness, but the feverous blood of savage ferocity seemed to flow from her heart. 1800 J. Hurdis Favorite Village iii. 101 The fev'rous kettle with internal evil..totters on the bars. 1866 Liverpool Mercury 13 July 3/6 The stars sparkle on us 'tween the gaps O' the crudded clouds, moon-blanched (oft crimsoned o'er With the feverous glare of city fires). 3. figurative. Excited, nervous, restless; agitated, frantic; = feverish adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > nervous excitement > [adjective] > nervously excited or agitated high-wrought1579 feverous1587 tremulous1611 feverish1637 overwound1640 gestient1644 overwrought1648 twittering1648 fevereda1657 tumultuous1667 wrought-up1688 flustered1743 trepidatinga1774 flurried1775 wrought1778 riled1825 tête montée1825 worked up1831 tumultuating1854 trepidant1891 tremorous1897 wroughted1905 goosy1906 hotted-up1923 steamed1923 spooky1926 antsy-pantsy1944 antsy1950 agitato1964 amped1967 wired1970 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xix. 349 By Pleasure they ment the delights of the mynde, and not the feuerous pleasures [Fr. plaisirs fieureux] of the bodie. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 73 I do feare thee Claudio..Least thou a feauorous life shouldst entertaine. View more context for this quotation 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xv. 141 The feverous rage of Tyrannizing. 1749 T. Smollett Regicide v. i. 66 Whose fev'rous Life..feels th' incessant Throb Of ghastly Pannic! 1780 Mirror No. 102. (1781) III. 264 The prodigal is running his feverous and distempered course. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. ix. 139 His intellectual powers were never stimulated into fev'rous energy. 1865 J. Ruskin Sesame & Lilies (ed. 2) Pref. p. xv Feverous haste..has become the law of their being. 1921 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 31 July (Mag. section) 3/1 Many also were the cheruby boys and girls in that stream of feverous humanity. 1973 Rev. Eng. Stud. 24 484 An essay..traces the moulding effect of Donne's creative intelligence on the random intensity of a feverous imagination. 2018 Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) (Nexis) 6 Feb. 1 I wonder what it would take to produce screams and shouts, hot tempers and feverous excitement. 4. Of climate, food, etc.: apt to cause fever; = feverish adj. 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adjective] > producing feverous1603 feverish1653 febrific1710 febrifacient1803 pyrogenetic1871 pyrogenic1871 pyrogenous1874 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 700 Simple viands, which be holsome and healthfull, as preservatives hanging about our necks, against these sumptuous, surfetous & feaverous [Fr. fiebureuses] feasts. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §786 Southern-Winds..without Rain, do cause a Fevorous disposition of the Year. 1761 M. Cooper Poems Several Occasions 80 Summer suns Dart down the feverous beam. 1827 H. Coleridge On Infancy in Lit. World 21 Mar. (1890) The feverous summer's beam alike she dreads. 1890 Longman's Mag. July 284 He was glad..to retire from the feverous autumn. 1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Mar. 145/1 Into the feverous coast of Central America Scotland poured all her capital and many of her lives. 1986 Chaucer Rev. 20 223 The Black Prince was mortally ill from..amoebic dysentery during the hot, feverous Iberian summer. 2013 US Fed News (Nexis) 12 Sept. [She] arrived from the temperate maritime climate of England, where the rare summer rise above 80 degrees is considered feverous. Derivatives ˈfeverously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [adverb] feverouslya1631 feverishly1640 the mind > emotion > excitement > [adverb] raisedly1591 animatedly1783 feverously1829 excitedly1852 ebulliently1887 effervescingly1898 a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 55 A maladie Desperately hot, or changing feaverously. 1829 T. D. Poet in A. Cunningham Anniversary 249 He, who..feverously grasps at a splendid loss. 1912 Economist 2 Mar. 462/1 The Committee was feverously anxious to prove that it was not composed of Jews. 2012 Jrnl. Aesthetic Educ. 46 iii. 30 He latched on to women and was feverously jealous. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1393
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