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Webster 1913 Edition

Calenture

Cal′en-ture

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Noun.
[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

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Verb.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Calenture

CALENTURE

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Noun.
A violent ardent fever, incident to persons in hot climates, especially natives of cooler climates. It is attended with delirium, and one of the symptoms is, that the person affected imagines the sea to be a green field, and sometimes attempting to walk in it, is lost.

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