feverous

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English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for feverous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

From fever +‎ -ous.

Adjective

feverous (comparative more feverous, superlative most feverous)

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

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