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Calenture

noun

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Noun
  1. 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. 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.

Etymology

From Middle French calenture, from Spanish calentura.

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