Calenture
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
"To returne: in changing so many parallels, the weather increast from warme to raging hot, the Sunne flaming all day, insomuch that Calentures begun to vexe us."
- 2 A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.
Example
More examples"To returne: in changing so many parallels, the weather increast from warme to raging hot, the Sunne flaming all day, insomuch that Calentures begun to vexe us."
Etymology
From Middle French calenture, from Spanish calentura.
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