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Synonyms for calenture

Grammar : Noun
Spell : kal-uh n-cher, -choo r
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæl ən tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər

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Définition 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-tÅ«r, 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

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