calenture

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But in this voyage I was extremely sick, being thrown into a violent calenture through the excessive heat, trading upon the coast from the latitude of fifteen degrees north, even to the line itself.

From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Defoe, Daniel

At three o'clock on the night of Tuesday, July 26, I awoke in a chill, and before morning I had all the symptoms of calenture, with a temperature of 104.

From Campaigning in Cuba by Kennan, George

Four more officers died, and most of Ralegh's personal servants, so that, though he was himself suffering from a severe calenture, he was attended only by pages.

From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de

“Too old!”–His calenture ceased suddenly; there was a tug on his fishing line.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

And for that lethargy was there no care, But to be cast into a calenture?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund