feverous

From fever + -ous.

feverous (comparative more feverous, superlative most feverous)

1. affected with a fever.
   • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the poem)”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC:

     How often placed upon the sick man's brow
     Cool'd it, or laid his feverous pillow smooth!

   • 1866, Poems and Ballads, The Two Dreams:

     Who feels his temples newly feverous.

   • 1871, George MacDonald, Organ Songs, “Longing,” in Works of Fancy and Imagination, London, Volume II, p. 230,^[1]

     O all wide places, far from feverous towns!

     Great shining seas! pine forests! mountains wild!

2. having the nature of fever
   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:

     Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds

3. (rare) having a tendency to produce fever

   a feverous disposition of the year

   • 1858, Charles Kingsley, Andromeda and Other Poems, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC:

     Hark! from wasted moor and fen,
     Feverous alley, stifling den,
     Swells the wail of Saxon men—
     Work! or the grave!

   • 1897, Julia Ditto Young, The Story of Saville:

     For the soul that was but as a reed in the wind hath attained a Nirvana of calm,
     And is in this feverous desert of life a fountain of healing and balm,

4. feverish; frenetic

• feverously

• “feverous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.