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calenture
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Definition:A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48---1. A heat stroke or fever, often suffered in the tropics.2. A delirium occurring from such symptoms, in which a stricken sailor pictures the sea as grassy meadows and wishes to dive overboard into them.text from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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had several men who died in my ship of calentures, so that I was forced to get recruits out of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, where I touched, by the direction of the merchants who employed me; which I had soon too much cause to repent
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Yet even in this voyage I had my misfortunes too; particularly that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate.
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe (1719)
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