Word Meanings - QUOTIDIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever. (more info) daily; quotus how many + dies day: cf. OF. cotidien, F. quotidien.

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• 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,
• RETURNLESS
  Admitting no return. Chapman.
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• OCCURRENT
  Occurring or happening; hence, incidental; accidental.
• 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.
• FEVERET
  A slight fever. Ayliffe.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• 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.
• DAILY
  A publication which appears regularly every day; as, the morning dailies.
• FEVERWORT
  See FEVER
• RETURN
  1. To turn back; to go or come again to the same place or condition. "Return to your father's house." Chaucer. On their embattled ranks the waves return. Milton. If they returned out of bondage, it must be into a state of freedom. Locke. Dust thou
• 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
• QUOTIDIAN
  Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever. (more info) daily; quotus how many + dies day: cf. OF. cotidien, F. quotidien.
• RETURNABLE
  Legally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court. (more info) 1. Capable of, or admitting of, being returned.
• FEVEROUSLY
  Feverishly. Donne.
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• 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.
• LAZARET FEVER
  Typhus fever.