Calenture
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Calenture is a noun meaning A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
Meaning
A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
More Meanings
- A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.
Example Sentences
To returne: in changing so many parallels, the weather increast from warme to raging hot, the Sunne flaming all day, insomuch that Calentures begun to vexe us.
Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; particularly that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate.
Word Forms
- calentures
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include temperature, sunfever, fever, hyperthermia, tazomahery, febrility.
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