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Definition of Calentures
1. calenture [n] - See also: calenture
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calentures
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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