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Feverous adj.

Affected with fever or ague; feverish. "His heart, love's feverous citadel."

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse. "All maladies... all feverous kinds."

Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Feverous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Feverous" Quotes from Famous Books

... you would love her! Even in dress She makes the common mode express New knowledge of what's fit so well 'Tis virtue gaily visible! Nay, but her silken sash to me Were more than all morality, Had not the old, sweet, feverous ill Left me the master of my will! So, Mother, feel at rest, and please To send my books on board. With these, When I go hence, all idle hours Shall help my pleasures and my powers. I've time, you know, to fill my post, And yet make up for schooling lost Through young sea-service. ...

— The Victories of Love - and Other Poems • Coventry Patmore

... and experience, and not come to look upon humanity and life with a less reverent regard. What man can learn to look upon the dying as so much matter about to be rekneaded and remodeled into a fresh mass of feverous joys, futile aspirations, and stinging chagrins, without a self-contempt from which there is no shelter but the poor hope that we may be a little better than we appear to ourselves. But Faber escaped ...

— Paul Faber, Surgeon • George MacDonald

... middle of August when the southwest wind Blows after sunset through the leisuring air, And on the sky nightly the mythic hind Leads down the sullen dog star to his lair, After the feverous vigil of July, When the loud pageant of the year's high noon Passed up the ways of time to sing and part, Grief also wandered by From out the lovers and the leaves of June, And by the wizard spices of his hair I knew his heart was very Love's own heart. Deep ...

— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse

Words linked to "Feverous" : sick, feverish, ill, fever