febrific

American  

[fi-brif-ik] / fɪˈbrɪf ɪk /

adjective

1. producing or marked by fever.

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febrific British  

/ fɪˈbrɪfɪk /

adjective

1. causing or having a fever

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Etymology

Origin of febrific

First recorded in 1700–10; febri- + -fic

Example Sentences

But the stomach of our State, if we may be permitted to use the expression, is, as yet, too tender and febrific to allow such a fearful deglutition.

From Project Gutenberg

Very likely," says the doctor: "I have known people eat in a fever; and it is very easily accounted for; because the acidity occasioned by the febrile matter may stimulate the nerves of the diaphragm, and thereby occasion a craving which will not be easily distinguishable from a natural appetite; but the aliment will not be concreted, nor assimilated into chyle, and so will corrode the vascular orifices, and thus will aggravate the febrific symptoms.

From Project Gutenberg