pyretic

His choreography was sharp, ecstatic, pyretic; while his dancers, swathed in brilliant fabrics and ornate feathered headpieces, merged the rhapsodic convulsions common to the Shango and Yoruba faiths with sleek pirouettes and dazzling leaps.

Dig, whose means were not equal to his connections, produced, somewhat bashfully, a rather “high” cold chicken, some gingerbread, some pyretic saline, and a slab or two of home-made toffee.