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Entry 2 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Calenture

· Cal·en·ture · IPA
01 n. A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which …
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    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.(Med.)
02 v. i. To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
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    To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.[Poetic]
    “Hath fed on pageants floating through the air Or calentures in depths of limpid flood.” — Wordsworth.