Calenture

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Calenture \Cal"en*ture\, n. [F. calenture, fr. Sp. calenture
     heat, fever, fr. calentar to heat, fr. p. pr. of L. calere to
     be warm.] (Med.)
     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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Calenture \Cal"en*ture\, v. i.
     To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
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           Hath fed on pageants floating through the air
           Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. --Wordsworth.
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