calenture
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of calenture
1585–95; earlier calentura < Spanish: fever, equivalent to calent ( ar ) to heat (< Latin calent-, stem of calēns, present participle of calēre to be hot) + -ura -ure
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“Too old!”–His calenture ceased suddenly; there was a tug on his fishing line.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund
Might he not urge in his excuse, to cloak him from his own and the world's contempt, some unsuspected calenture, for which, had he known, he ought to have taken medical advice?
From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George
"And that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?"
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri
At three o'clock on the night of Tuesday, July 26, I awoke in a chill, and before morning I had all the symptoms of calenture, with a temperature of 104.
From Campaigning in Cuba by Kennan, George
What to do? you already know that her betrothed, Señor Santillo de Santayana, is dead a year ago of a calenture.
From Rita by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
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