feverous
Adjective
affected with a fever.
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How often placed upon the sick man's brow Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!
Who feels his temples newly feverous.
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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
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Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds
having a tendency to produce fever
Usage- Rare
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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
Adjective
having or affected by a fever
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