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▪ I. fervent, a.|ˈfɜːvənt|
Forms: 4–6 feruente, vervente, (5 ferfent, furvaunte, 6 farvente, fervant), 4– fervent.
[a. F. fervent, ad. L. fervent-em, fervens, pr. pple. of fervēre to boil, glow.]
1. Hot, burning, glowing, boiling.
a1400–50Alexander 3871 Flawmes feruent as fyre. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 311 In þis caas we mowen use hoot fervent oile. 1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) p. lxix, The Sunne is not fervent. 1572J. Jones Bathes of Bath ii. 10 Actuall fyre, working upon the water itself cannot put into it a greater degree of heat, then the degree of fervent heate. 1611Bible 2 Pet. iii. 10 The Elements shall melt with feruent heat. 1704J. Pitts Acc. Mohometans 56, I have seen many..to work all day..in the most fervent Harvest time. 1849M. Somerville Connect. Phys. Sc. xxvii. 300 The short but fervent summers at the polar regions. 1874S. Cox Pilgr. Ps. vii. 147 A fervent waste in which it is lost.
fig.1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 119/2 Let them all..lerne that god deliteth to se the feruent hete of y⊇ hartis deuocion boile out by y⊇ body.
†b. In mediæval pharmacy, of drugs: = hot.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. lxxvii. (1495) 908 Some thynges that drawyth laxeth also and be feruent as Scamonea. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xxx. 187 The common Camomill..is not so fervent as the Romaine Camomill, but more pleasant.
†c. Of cold: Intense, severe. Obs.
1448R. Fox Chron. (Camden) 116 Hit was a fervent coolde weder. 1473J. Warkworth Chron. (Camden) 3 Ther was one fervent froste thrugh Englande. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 337 The fervent frost so bitter wes. 1634Harington Salernes Regim. 182 A fervent cold Countrey.
2. Of persons, their passions, dispositions, or actions: Ardent, intensely earnest. From 17th c. almost exclusively with reference to love or hatred, zeal, devotion or aspiration.
c1400Destr. Troy 2154 Than was Priam..more feruent to fight. 14..Why I Can't be a Nun 7 in E.E.P. (1862) 138 They were as ferfent as ony fyre To execute her lordys byddyng. 1534Tindale 1 Pet. iv. 8 Above all thinges haue fervent love amonge you. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 25 b, We of this Church who haue bene feruenter xxx. yeares ago than we be at this day. 1591Spenser Gnat 296 He spide his foe with..feruent eyes to his destruction bent. 1673Lady's Call. ii. §1 ⁋23. 65 By the ferventest praiers implore..God. 1738Wesley Ps. xiii. 8 My Heart in fervent Wishes burns. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 215 It proves the glow of his kindness the ferventer. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. 944 Many fervent souls strike rhyme on rhyme.
b. Of conflict, uproar, formerly also of pestilence, a wild beast, etc.: Hot, fierce, raging. Now rare.
1465Marg. Paston in Lett. No. 523 II. 226 The pestylens is so fervent in Norwych that [etc.]. 1494Fabyan Chron. iv. lxvii. 46 Whiche persecucion..was so sharpe & feruent, that [etc.]. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. (Arb.) 139 When the battel is..most fierce and fervent. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 543 There appeared unto them a Boar..having fire-burning eyes, a despiteful look..and every way fervent. 1814Wordsw. White Doe of Ryl. i. 43 A moment ends the fervent din.
▪ II. † ˈfervent, v. Obs.—0
[f. prec.]
trans. To utter fervently. Hence fervented ppl. a.
a1626W. Sclater Serm. Exper. (1638) 68 Their..fervented supplication to have life prorogued. |