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Calenture \Cal"en*ture\, 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.
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Calenture \Cal"en*ture\, v. i.
To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
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Hath fed on pageants floating through the air
Or calentures in depths of limpid flood. --Wordsworth.
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