befevered

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ fevered.

Adjective

befevered (comparative more befevered, superlative most befevered)

1. Afflicted with fever.
   • 1878, George Dennis, The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, John Murray, published 1878, page 236:

     The place is squalid beyond description, almost in utter ruin, desolated in summer by malaria, and at no time containing more that some hundred and fifty befevered souls […]

   • 1939, Ben Arid (pseudonym of Melville Clemens Barnard), Putting "It" in the Column, De Vorss & Co. (1939), page 85:

     Indeed, I am convinced that there is no microbe or germ, however tough and wicked he may be, that could survive the repeated shocks upon his armor of a series of deep, lusty guffaws deftly produced by the skilled medico in the heart cockles of his befevered patient!

   • 2004 May 13, Christopher Lloyd & Joe Keenan, "Goodnight, Seattle", episodes 11-23/24 of Frasier, 00:08:16-00:08:30:

     Frasier Crane: Use it in a sentence.
     Charlotte Connor: Her grandmother's bed was warm and quilty.
     Frasier Crane: And why is she lying there? Because she's feeling all "befevered" again?
     

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:befevered.