Crossword clues for fervid
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fervid \Fer"vid\, a. [L. fervidus, fr. fervere. See Fervent.]
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Very hot; burning; boiling.
The mounted sun Shot down direct his fervid rays.
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Ardent; vehement; zealous.
The fervid wishes, holy fires.
--Parnell. -- Fer"vid*ly, adv. -- Fer"vid*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "burning, glowing, hot," from Latin fervidus "glowing, burning; vehement, fervid," from fervere "to boil, glow" (see brew (v.)). Figurative sense of "impassioned" is from 1650s. Related: Fervidly; fervidness.
Wiktionary
a. intensely hot, emotional, or zealous.
WordNet
adj. characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a burning enthusiasm"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent, burning(a), fervent, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid]
extremely hot; "the fervent heat...merely communicated a genial warmth to their half-torpid systems"- Nathaniel Hawthorne; "set out...when the fervid heat subsides"- Frances Trollope [syn: fervent]
Usage examples of "fervid".
I heard Steele pronounce a fervid eulogy on those who had strengthened his hands for the fight which he knew it would shortly fall to his lot to wage against Apollyon, I did not wonder at weak-minded persons like Maria Lisle, swayed by such eloquence, setting up new standards of right and wrong for themselves.
With one hand restraining the flowing folds of her fine silk nightclothes, she lurched over the closestool in her Covent Garden flat and prayed, in fluent and fervid Italian, for death to take her.
Secondly, the bourgeois, whom he called philistines, the humbly living, contented, narrow-minded, timid, whom he did not hate as much as he despised them with fervid scorn.
His business was to carol of the most vapid and obvious sentiment, and to string flowers, fruits, trees, breeze, sorrow, to-morrow, knights, coal-black steeds, regret, deception, and so forth, into fervid anapaestics.
Brilliant apercus, gnomic sayings, flights of fervid eloquence, infinitely suggestive reflections – of these there is enough and to spare.
When the Barons met at the abbey of Saint Edmund’s-Bury, to consider their wrongs and the King’s oppressions, Stephen Langton roused them by his fervid words to demand a solemn charter of rights and liberties from their perjured master, and to swear, one by one, on the High Altar, that they would have it, or would wage war against him to the death.
A fervid enthusiast, Greene has found in extempore lecturing his true vocation, especially among the lower percentiles of the student body.
Scraped and worn by the wind from the spectacular copper cliffs and valleys of Pyrassis, dunes a hundred meters high marched eastward in banded tones of dark green and purplish blue, fervid orange and pink and red.