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单词 fevery
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feveryadj.

Brit. /ˈfiːv(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈfivəri/
Forms: Old English febrig, Old English feforig, 1600s feu'rie, 1600s feu'ry, 1600s feuery, 1600s fev'ry, 1800s– fevery.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: fever n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < fever n.1 + -y suffix1.Compare German fieberig (16th cent.). Compare also Old English unfeferig not feverish (rare; compare un- prefix1). Apparently re-formed in the early 17th cent., and again in the 19th cent.
Affected by fever; tending to cause fever; feverish. Also figurative and in extended use.
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feveryOE
feverousa1398
febricitant1599
mumpsick1599
fevered1605
febrient1651
febrile1651
feverish1680
febriculose1884
enfevered1893
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) i. 36 Gif he ðonne sy febrig & he sy mycelre hætan ðrowiende syle ðonne þa wyrte on wearmum wætere.
OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) iii. 242 Gif he feforig sy drince þonne on wearmum wætere, þæt bið god læcecræft.
1609 N. Morgan Perfection of Horse-manship vi. 19 We doe not onely allow both horses and horsemen of all other countries..brand our owne countrie and people with all imperfection, being only carryed with the Ayerie stroke of feuery censure.
1611 B. Jonson Catiline iii. sig. G1v And all thy body feu'ry . View more context for this quotation
1612 G. Chapman To Live with Little in tr. Petrarch Seven Penit. Psalms 81 A feu'rie mans thirst.
1848 J. D. Hooker Let. 13 Oct. in C. Darwin Corr. (1988) IV. 174 In the richest Terai forest soil; a rank, dank, fevery, & eminently vegetable mould, I find only 11. percent of organic matter.
1883 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 668/2 It's kind of low land, and has always been called fevery.
1957 Sewanee Rev. 65 262 Her desire was definite as murder—to snatch from fevery sunny hours..that chaos of brightness.
1992 A. Desmond & J. Moore Darwin (new ed.) 506 Her fevery spells and digestion caused Charles such ‘incessant anxiety’.
2017 MailOnline (Nexis) 13 July Within days she became fevery and doctors gave her antibiotics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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