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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
calenture \cal"enture\, 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.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
calenture \cal"enture\, v. i.
to see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
poetic
1913 webster
hath fed on pageants floating through the air
or calentures in depths of limpid flood. --wordsworth.
1913 webster
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