fevery

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adjective

Similar to a fever; feverlike.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivefevery (comparative more fevery, superlative most fevery)

comparative more fevery · superlative most fevery

  1. Similar to a fever; feverlike.
  2. obsoleteFeverish.

    And that there be no fevery heats nor colds

    a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC
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    O Rome, in vvhat a ſickneſſe art thou fall'n! / Hovv dangerous, and deadly! vvhen thy head / Is drovvn'd in ſleepe, and all thy body feu'ry!

    1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, Act III, signature G, verso

Origin

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