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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Carlisle was there seated in the shade of a giant palm, watching the drilling of a yet weak and staggering company whose very memory that burning calenture had enfeebled.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.
From Campaigning in Cuba by George Kennan
The fervency of his resolve not to leave England called up as in a calenture the lands that he was not to travel, the freedom that was not to be his.
From The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by May Sinclair
"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 John Uri Lloyd
Sweetheart, I can write unto you but with a weak hand, for I have suffered the most violent calenture for fifteen days that ever man did and lived.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
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