Also 8 feverette. [f. as prec. + -ET.] A slight fever.
1712. Thoresby, Diary, II. 149. Two of the compositors being in this new distemper, of which multitudes are sick, by physicians called a Feveret.
1769. St. James’ Chron., 3–5 Aug., 4/2. You will certainly throw yourself into a violent Fever, or at least a Feveret.
1796. C. Burney, Mem. Metastasio, II. 129. Your most welcome letter found me struggling with a catarrh and feverette, for which I receive compliments, as a salutary thing; but I am more inclined to grumble and be ungrateful, than to thank my friends for their felicitations.
1863. T. Thompson, Ann. Influenza, 59. Throughout the whole course of this feveret, the patients expectorate largely.
fig. 1836. T. E. Hook, Gilbert Gurney, II. 211. So exceedingly free and easy in their addresses to my admirable widow, that they kept me in a perpetual feveret.
