Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with fever or ague.
- Having the nature of fever.
- Having a tendency to produce fever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Affected with fever or ague; feverish.
- adjective Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever.
- adjective rare Having the tendency to produce fever.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective affected with fever or ague
- adjective having the nature of fever
- adjective rare having a tendency to produce fever; as a feverous disposition of the year
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or affected by a fever
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Examples
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By now the pyrotechnics have become continuous and the music is at a feverous pitch.
A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition 2009
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By now the pyrotechnics have become continuous and the music is at a feverous pitch.
A wedding and christening in rural Oaxaca: The mandate of tradition 2009
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* Enjoyed this from Boing Boing: lecture from Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky on evolution, religion, schizophrenia and the schizotypal personality, arguing by analogy to sickle cell that schizophrenia is the hypertrophic result of genes that in isolation reward their holder with feverous religious certainty.
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This vista is a testament to a man with a feverous idea in his brain that he had to get out.
YesButNoButYes: Retro Week - Top 10 Christian Tourist Traps 2007
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Looks red-breathing forth your bosom's feverous anger;
Poems and Fragments 2006
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This vista is a testament to a man with a feverous idea in his brain that he had to get out.
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Restless in unquell'd passion, a feverous heart,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Looks red-breathing forth your bosom's feverous anger;
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Restless in unquell'd passion, a feverous heart,
Poems and Fragments 2006
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At four in the morning, when for once you're not in a feverous delerium, the sound of cat body flying agaist the window pain, and then sliding off after trying vehemently to scratch his way up the glass, is not a nice sound to wake up to.
hamletwildie Diary Entry hamletwildie 2004
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