What is the meaning of Calenture?

  • (v.i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.
  • (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; especially to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.
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APAWebster's. (2011). calenture. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/calenture/definitions/1983902
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HarvardWebster's 2011, calenture, Smart Define, viewed 20 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/calenture/definitions/1983902>.
MLAWebster's. "calenture" 27 May 2011. Web. 20 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/calenture/definitions/1983902>