fever lurden

noun

Lurgy. (laziness regarded as a notional disease)

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nounfever lurden (uncountable)

alternative fever-lurden

  1. datedobsoleteuncountableLurgy. (laziness regarded as a notional disease)
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    Faith of its owne nature is very laborious , and whiles it is ſtrong and healthy, tyes her ſelfe duely to her Taske , and is alwayes at worke : Yet ſometimes , the Fever Lurden having caught her , ſhee begins to bee lazie, and to have no lift to worke. Nay , then it is Holy-day , and Vacation-time with her, til ſhee recover her ſelfe againe.

    1635, Daniel Dike, “A Commentary vpon the Epistle to Philemon”, in The Workes of that Late Reverend Divine Maſter Daniel Dike, Batchelor in Diuinity, London: […] Iohn Beale, Verse 6, page 134

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lurgy
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