Antonyms for calenture

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kal-uh n-cher, -choo r

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæl ən tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər

Definition of calenture

As in fire : noun animation, vigor

Example sentences :

They presently catch fever, or a calenture, or a cramp, and so they die.
Extract from : « For Faith and Freedom » by Walter Besant

But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?
Extract from : « St George's Cross » by H. G. Keene

A new world seemed to open before her longing gaze—a world, or a calenture, a mirage?
Extract from : « Robert Falconer » by George MacDonald

The evidence relative to yellow fever, or calenture, during this period in Virginia is contradictory.
Extract from : « Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 » by Thomas P. Hughes

Calenture, kal′en-tūr, n. a kind of fever or delirium occurring on board ship in hot climates.
Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) » by Various

The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.
Extract from : « The Whirlpool » by George Gissing

This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.
Extract from : « A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. » by Robert Kerr

In the rapture with which Keats sang of trees and fields, there is something of the nature of calenture.
Extract from : « British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Volume LIV » by Various

Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.
Extract from : « Campaigning in Cuba » by George Kennan

Calenture, or Cuban malarial fever, comes on rather suddenly with a chill of greater or less severity and a violent headache.
Extract from : « Campaigning in Cuba » by George Kennan

Synonyms for calenture

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