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calenture

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Definitions

  1. A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.

Word origin

From Middle French calenture, from Spanish calentura.

Used in a sentence

  • To returne: in changing so many parallels, the weather increast from warme to raging hot, the Sunne flaming all day, insomuch that Calentures begun to vexe us.
  • Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; particularly that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate.

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