calenture

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This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

The fervency of his resolve not to leave England called up as in a calenture the lands that he was not to travel, the freedom that was not to be his.

From The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by Sinclair, May

The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

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

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

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir