feverous

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Definition of feverous

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

affected with a fever.

“How often placed upon the sick man's brow Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!”
“Who feels his temples newly feverous.”
“1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230, O all wide places, far from feverous towns! Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!”

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adj

affected with a fever.

“How often placed upon the sick man's brow Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!”
“Who feels his temples newly feverous.”
“1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230, O all wide places, far from feverous towns! Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!”
having the nature of fever

“Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds”
(rare)having a tendency to produce fever

“a feverous disposition of the year”
“For the soul that was but as a reed in the wind hath attained a Nirvana of calm, And is in this feverous desert of life a fountain of healing and balm,”
feverish; frenetic

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From fever + -ous.

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