单词 | calenture |
释义 | calenturen. 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. 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). < n.1593v.a1657 |
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