feverous (fever us)

[ The earth was feverous , and did shake. Shak., Macbeth, ii. 3. The busine of your last week's letter, concerning the widow, is not a subject for a feverous man's consideration. Donne , Letters, xxii. 2. Having the nature of fever. All maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds. Milton , P. L., xi. 482. A le feverous and exclusive pursuit of wealth. Westminster Rev. , CXXVIII. 616. 3. Having a tendency to produce fever. It hath been noted by the ancients that southern winds, blowing much, without rain, do cause a feverous disposi tion of the year; but with rain not. Bacon, Nat. Hist. [Obsolete or rare in all uses.] feverouslyt (fe'ver-us-li), adv . In a feverous manner; feverishly. A malady Desperately hot or changing feverously . Donne, Elegies, vii.