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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Feverous

Feverous \Fe"ver*ous\, a. [Cf.F. fi['e]vreux.]

  1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish.

    His heart, love's feverous citadel.
    --Keats.

  2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.

    All maladies . . . all feverous kinds.
    --Milton.

  3. Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year. [R.]
    --Bacon.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
feverous

late 14c., "having a fever; characteristic of fever," from fever + -ous or from Old French fievrous. Meaning "apt to cause fever" is from 1620s. Related: Feverously.

Wiktionary
feverous

a. 1 affected with fever or ague 2 having the nature of fever 3 (context rare English) having a tendency to produce fever; as a feverous disposition of the year

WordNet
feverous

adj. having or affected by a fever [syn: feverish]

Usage examples of "feverous".

Numbers of all diseased--all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.

Numbers of all diseased--all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.