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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The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.
From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George
To make matters worse, the captain again fell sick of a kind of calenture, and took to his bed.
From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert
And us wi' scarce any water and half on us rotten wi' scurvy or calenture, an' no luck this cruise, neither!
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Farnol, Jeffery
Four more officers died, and most of Ralegh's personal servants, so that, though he was himself suffering from a severe calenture, he was attended only by pages.
From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de
And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast into a calenture?
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir
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