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calenture

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From Middle French calenture, from Spanish calentura.

noun calentures

  1. A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics. 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.
  2. A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.

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noun heat stroke or fever

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"calenture." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/calenture. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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calenture. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/calenture

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"calenture." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/calenture.

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@misc{calenture_2026,
  title = {calenture},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/calenture},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}