Feverous

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

  Feverous \Fe"ver*ous\, a. [Cf.F. fi['e]vreux.]
     1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish.
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              His heart, love's feverous citadel.   --Keats.
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     2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a
        feverous pulse.
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              All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. --Milton.
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     3. Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous
        disposition of the year. [R.] --Bacon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  feverous
       adj : having or affected by a fever [syn: {feverish}]