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feverous en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English fever Latin -ōsus Old French -usbor. Middle English -ous English -ous English feverous From fever + -ous.

Meanings

1. affected with a fever.
   • Who feels his temples newly feverous. 1866, Poems and Ballads, The Two Dreams:
   • 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!
   • 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:
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. (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, 1897, Julia Ditto Young, The Story of Saville:
4. feverish; frenetic

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Deriveds

feverously