单词 | fever heat |
释义 | > as lemmasfever heat fever heat n. [compare German Fieberhitze (17th cent. or earlier)] the elevated temperature of the body occurring in fever; an instance of this; frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > ardour or fervour > [noun] heatc825 earnestOE fervour1340 ardourc1386 fever heata1398 burning1398 lowea1425 fervencec1430 ferventnessc1430 flame1548 ardency1549 fervency1554 fire1579 calenture1596 inflammation1600 warmth1600 brimstonea1616 incandescence1656 fervidness1692 candency1723 glow1748 white heat1814 hwyl1899 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > high or low temperature > [noun] > high temperature heatc1000 fever heata1398 empyreuma1634 empyreum1651 hyperthermia1886 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xlv. 1309 Vnctuos mete norischeþ feuer hete [L. febrilis caloris]. 1628 W. Folkingham Panala Medica viii. 53 Doe they not coole Feuer-heats with Hot purgers? 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella (1849) II. ii. vi. 367 Ximenes whose zeal had mounted up to fever heat..was not to be cooled by any opposition. 1898 Wide World Mag. Nov. 122/1 There were the usual symptoms—quick flushings and fever heats, followed by violent fits of shivering. 1948 G. Frost Flying Squad xi. 127 For two years this crook lived at the fever-heat of suspicion, until one night at the appointed stroke as he drove up for his meet, I drove down the other end of the road. 2003 Sunday Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 9 Nov. (Sport section) 127 The TAB merger-takeover speculation approached fever heat at Doomben yesterday. < as lemmas |
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