fevered

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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Origin:
before 1000; Middle English; Old English fefer < Latin febr- (stem of febris) fever; reinforced by Anglo-French fevre, Old French fievre < Latin, as above

Related forms

fe·ver·less, adjective

un·fe·vered, adjective

Can be confused: 1. fervent, fever, feverish ; 2. fever, temperature.

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fever (ˈfiːvə)

—n
1.	an abnormally high body temperature, accompanied by a fast pulse rate, dry skin, etcRelated: febrile, pyretic
2.	any of various diseases, such as yellow fever or scarlet fever, characterized by a high temperature
3.	intense nervous excitement or agitation: she was in a fever about her party

—vb
4.	(tr) to affect with or as if with fever

Related: febrile, pyretic

[Old English fēfor, from Latin febris]

'fevered

—*adj*

'feverless

—*adj*

fever (ˈfiːvə)

—n
1.	an abnormally high body temperature, accompanied by a fast pulse rate, dry skin, etcRelated: febrile, pyretic
2.	any of various diseases, such as yellow fever or scarlet fever, characterized by a high temperature
3.	intense nervous excitement or agitation: she was in a fever about her party

—vb
4.	(tr) to affect with or as if with fever

Related: febrile, pyretic

[Old English fēfor, from Latin febris]

'fevered

—*adj*

'feverless

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

fever

late O.E. fefor, from L. febris "fever," related to fovere "to warm, heat," probably from PIE base *dhegh- "burn" (cf. Goth. dags, O.E. dæg "day," originally "the heat"); but some suggest a reduplication of a root represented by Skt. *bhur- "to be restless." Adopted into most Gmc. languages (cf.

Ger. fieber, Sw. feber, Da. fever), but not in Du. Eng. spelling infl. by O.Fr. fievre. Replaced O.E. hriðing. Extended sense of "intense nervous excitement" is from 1586.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

fever fe·ver (fē'vər)
n.

Body temperature above the normal of 98.6°F (37°C). Also called pyrexia.
Any of various diseases in which there is an elevation of the body temperature above normal.

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Science Dictionary

fever

(fē'vər) Pronunciation Key
A body temperature that is higher than normal. Fever is the body's natural response to the release of substances called pyrogens by infectious agents such as bacteria and viruses. The pyrogens stimulate the hypothalamus in the brain to conserve heat and increase the basal metabolic rate.

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Bible Dictionary

Fever definition

(Deut. 28:22; Matt. 8:14; Mark 1:30; John 4:52; Acts 28:8), a burning heat, as the word so rendered denotes, which attends all febrile attacks. In all Eastern countries such diseases are very common. Peter's wife's mother is said to have suffered from a "great fever" (Luke 4:38), an instance of Luke's professional exactitude in describing disease. He adopts here the technical medical distinction, as in those times fevers were divided into the "great" and the "less."

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