Word Meanings - QUARTAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.

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• RECKON
  reckon, G. rechnen, OHG. rahnjan), and to E. reck, rake an implement; the original sense probably being, to bring together, count together. 1. To count; to enumerate; to number; also, to compute; to calculate. The priest shall reckon to him the
• RECKONER
  One who reckons or computes; also, a book of calculation, tables, etc., to assist in reckoning. Reckoners without their host must reckon twice. Camden.
• FEVER
  A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• FEVERISH
  1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
• QUARTAN
  Of or pertaining to the fourth; occurring every fourth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quartan ague, or fever.
• FEVERET
  A slight fever. Ayliffe.
• FOURTHLY
  In the fourth place.
• INCLUSIVELY
  In an inclusive manner.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• FEVEROUS
  1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse. All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. Milton. 3. Having the tendency to produce fever;
• FEVERY
  Feverish. B. Jonson.
• FOURTH
  1. Next in order after the third; the ordinal of four. 2. Forming one of four equal parts into which anything may be divided.
• FEVERWORT
  See FEVER
• EVERYONE
  Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.
• EVERYDAY
  Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. Sir. J. Herchel.
• OCCURRENCE
  1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. I. Watts. 2. Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed
• EVERYBODY
  Every person.
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• DEAD-RECKONING
  See A
• REVERY
  See REVERIE
• BUCK FEVER
  Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting.
• ENFEVER
  To excite fever in. A. Seward.
• CHAGRES FEVER
  A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.
• EVERICH; EVERYCH
  each one; every one; each of two. See Every. Chaucer.