feverous

comparative more feverous · superlative most feverous

1. affected with a fever.

   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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   How often placed upon the sick man's brow Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!

   1864, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the poem)”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC

   Who feels his temples newly feverous.

   1866, Poems and Ballads, The Two Dreams

2. having the nature of fever

   Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds

   1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC

3. rarehaving a tendency to produce fever

   a feverous disposition of the year

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   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,

   1897, Julia Ditto Young, The Story of Saville

4. feverish; frenetic