About The Word Calenture
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Calenture
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What's The Definition Of Calenture?Synonyms | Synonyms for Calenture: Related Terms | Find terms related to Calenture: See Also | Calenture In Webster's Dictionary \Cal"en*ture\, n. [F. calenture, fr. Sp. calenture
heat, fever, fr. calentar to heat, fr. p. pr. of L. calere to
be warm.] (Med.)
A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics;
esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever,
among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to
imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself
into it.
\Cal"en*ture\, v. i. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture. [Poetic] Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. --Wordsworth. |
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