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calenture Tweet Definition of calenture Like Definition of calenture on Facebook
noun 
  1. A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.
    • 1719: w:Daniel Defoe, Daniel Defoe, w:Robinson Crusoe, Robinson Crusoe
    • : Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; particularly that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent by the excessive heat of the climate.
    • A delerium occurring from such symptoms, in which a striken sailor pictures the sea as grassy greens and wishes to dive overboard into them.
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