a. and sb. Now rare. [ad. L. febrīcitant-em, pr. pple. of febrīcitāre (see next). Cf. F. fébricitant.]

1

  A.  adj. Affected with fever; feverish.

2

1599.  A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, Contents, III. All Agues, and all Febricitant diseases, as is, the Rose, the Plague, also all those Poysons, which might ether be administred vnto a man ether in his meates, or drinckes.

3

1670.  Phil. Trans., V. 2079. A Fœtus febricitant whilst in the womb.

4

1884.  Syd. Soc. Lex., Febricitant.

5

  † B.  sb. One who is affected with fever. Obs.

6

1541.  R. Copland, Galyen’s Terapeutyke, 2 D iij b. Vj. C. tymes haue we wasshed many febricitans incontinent after ye fyrste actes [read acces].

7

1650.  J. Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis, xxii. 245. The Amplifying force … which formeth out in length the Bones of Febricitants, as wax.

8