Definition of Calentures

1. Noun. (plural of calenture) ¹

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Definition of Calentures

1. calenture [n] - See also: calenture

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calentures

calendographer
calendographers
calendrer
calendrers
calendric
calendrical
calendrically
calendrics
calendry
calends
calendula
calendulas
calendulin
calenture
calentured
calentures (current term)
calesa
calesas
calescence
calescent
calf
calf's-foot jelly
calf's brain
calf's liver
calf's tongue
calf-bone
calf bone
calf bones
calf diphtheria
calf love

Literary usage of Calentures

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"... salt meats at sea cannot but procure much unhealthiness and infection, and is questionless one main cause that our English are so subject to calentures, ..."

2. The British Tar in Fact and Fiction: The Poetry Pathos, and Humour of the by Charles Napier Robinson (1909)
"The "Captain" assents, saying that excessive eating of salt meats at sea " is questionless one main cause that our English are so subject to calentures, ..."

3. Malaria and Greek History by William Henry Samuel Jones (1909)
"Further, if this view be taken, the classification of fevers becomes quite complete. J (i) Continuous “calentures.” Class (a) . ..."

4. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval Manuscripts in the Pepysian Library at by Pepys Library, Samuel Pepys, Great Britain Admiralty. Archives (1903)
"... salt meats at sea cannot but procure much unhealthiness and infection, and is questionless one main cause that our English are so subject to calentures, ..."

5. Standard English Prose: Bacon to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1902)
"calentures and surfeit, etc. ... calentures may be considered here as the diseases incident to the summer, ..."

6. The Whole Works ; with an Essay Biographical and Critical by Jeremy Taylor (1835)
"... and the calentures of the first old devotion are renewed ; when it shall be accounted honourable to be a servant of Christ, and a shame to commit a sin. ..."

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