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febricitant
febricitant
English
Adjective
febricitant (comparative more febricitant, superlative most febricitant)
- (rare, obsolete) Feverish.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, vol.1, ch.30:
- For, it seemeth there are certaine motions in these vast bodies, some naturall, and othersome febricitant, as well as in ours.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, vol.1, ch.30:
Noun
febricitant (plural febricitants)
- (rare, obsolete) One affected with fever.
- 1886, Dujardin-Beaumetz, New medications:
- Lastly, the application of calorimetry proves in a sure manner that the febricitant evolves more heat than the healthy man, and that the production of heat is in direct relation with an augmentation in the chemical combustions in the organism.
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