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单词 calenture
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calenturen.

/ˈkaləntjʊə/
Forms: Also 1500s calentura, 1500s–1600s callenture.
Etymology: < French calenture, < Spanish calentura fever, < calentar to be hot, < Latin calēnt-em hot, burning.
1. A disease incident to sailors within the tropics, characterized by delirium in which the patient, it is said, fancies the sea to be green fields, and desires to leap into it.The word was also used in the Spanish general sense of ‘fever’, and sometimes in that of ‘sunstroke’.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun]
feverOE
febris1483
feveress1495
calenture1593
febricitation1598
feverishness1638
pyrexia1777
febricity1873
febrility1873
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > environmental disorders > [noun] > sunstroke or heatstroke
sun heatOE
calenture1593
insolation1758
coup de soleil1772
sunstroke1787
star-stroke1837
touch of the sun1867
thermoplegia1909
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > delirium or raving
wood dreameOE
mazec1300
paraphrenesisa1398
ravinga1398
deliramentc1450
idleness1535
delirium1563
randing1583
calenture1593
deliration1598
taveringa1599
ravery1599
delirement1613
debacchation1633
delirancy1645
deliry1657
deliriousness1671
paraphrenitis1683
paraphrosyne1684
deliracy1689
delirousness1694
paracope1749
paraphora1749
wandering1836
paralerema1848
paraleresis1857
paraphronesis1857
rambling1897
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 45 Then (as the possessed with the Calentura,) thou shalt offer to leape.
1605 London Prodigall v. i. 277 Such men die mad as of a calenture.
a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1644) 223 I have suffered the most violent Calenture for fifteen dayes.
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xii. 26 To avoyd the calmes, which..breede Calenturas, which wee call burning Fevers.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 19 In this Voyage..I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent Calenture by the excessive Heat.
1721 J. Swift Bubble vii So, by a calenture misled, The mariner with rapture sees, On the smooth ocean's azure bed, Enamell'd fields and verdant trees.
1840 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) V. 455 Demanding to jump overboard like the seaman in a calenture.
2. figurative and transferred. Fever; burning passion, ardour, zeal, heat, glow.
ΘΚΠ
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
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. F3v Er hee bee come to the..raging Calentura of his wretchednes.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 158 Knowledge kindles Calentures in some.
1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy (1647) 362 They were in the Calenture of primitive devotion.
a1711 T. Ken Preparatives for Death in Wks. (1721) IV. 27 Pure Chastity excells in Gust The Calentures of baneful Lust.
1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man III. ix. 238 The mirage of a moral calenture, which conjures up unexisting objects.

Derivatives

calentural adj. (Carlyle),
calenˈturist n.
ΚΠ
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Apr. 362/1 You were founder, I take it, of the disinterested sect of the Calenturists.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

calenturev.

Etymology: < calenture n.
Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To infect with the calenture; hence figurative to fever, fire.
ΚΠ
a1678 A. Marvell Poems in Wks. (1776) III. 336 Thirst of empire calentur'd his breast.
b. intransitive. To become hot or inflamed.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > become ardent or fervent [verb (intransitive)] > become inflamed with passion
heata1225
tind1297
lowea1333
anheat1340
to catch firec1400
kindlea1450
to take firea1513
inflame1559
broil1561
calenturea1657
the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > ardent or fervent [verb (transitive)] > inflame (with) passion
annealeOE
ontendeOE
anheatOE
atend1006
tindc1175
firec1225
heat?c1225
inlowa1300
inflamea1340
eschaufec1374
flamec1380
kindlec1390
chafe1393
achafea1400
to set a firec1400
lighta1413
incense1435
scaldc1480
embrase1483
incend?1504
to set on fire?1526
enkindle1561
enfire1596
flush1633
boil1649
calenturea1657
infirea1661
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II ccix, in Poems (1878) III. 189 A busie Age, where euery breath Calentur's into faction.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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