ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED.] a. Of the body: Affected with fever, extremely heated. b. Of the mind: Excited, over-wrought.

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1628.  Feltham, Resolves, II. lxxxiv. 241. A feavered Body; a boyling Stomacke.

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a. 1653.  G. Daniel, Idyll, ii. 45.

        For Feavered Minds, who their owne Pallats dresse
Wth hopes & Feares, Shift Sides, & find noe Ease.

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1697.  Dryden, Virg. Æneid, IV.

        Now forc’d to wake because afraid to sleep
Her Blood all Fever’d, with a furious Leap
She sprung from Bed, distracted in her Mind,
And fear’d, at ev’ry Step, a twitching Spright behind.

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1801.  Southey, Thalaba, V. i.

          He lifted up his fever’d face to heaven,
And bared his head and stretch’d his hands
        To that delightful shower.

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1843.  J. Martineau, Chr. Life (1867), 148. A gale from heaven fanned his fevered brow.

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1850.  Mrs. Jameson, Leg. Monast. Ord. (1863), 228. Her [the Church’s] attempt to guide or crush the aspiring, inquiring, ardent, fevered spirits of the time.

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1865.  Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., III. 283. It is such a pity to arrive at home entirely fevered, and knocked up with that journey, as always happens; and then you take it to be ‘London’ that is making you ill!

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