Calenture

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A tropical fever once believed to be caused by the heat.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
  • n. A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
  • verb-intransitive. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A kind of delirium sometimes caused, especially within the tropics, by exposure to excessive heat, particularly on board ship.
  • n. Figuratively, fever; burning passion or zeal; heat: as, the “calenture of primitive devotion,” ; “the calentures of baneful lust,”
    • Word Usage
    "Thus in the word calenture, nobody will deny that the first syllable is pronounced more emphatically than the others; but many will deny that it is longer in pronunciation."
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