a. [a. F. febrile, ad. L. febrīlis, f. febris fever.] † a. Of a person: Affected by, or suffering from, fever (obs.). b. Of or pertaining to fever; produced by or indicative of fever; feverish.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 194. Teach Physitians to fear how they expose their febrile patients to the congresse of cold things.
1666. G. Harvey, Morb. Angl., ii. (1672), 6. The Febril heat continuing its aduction upon the dryer fleshy parts, changes into a Marcid Feaver.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, VIII. iii. The acidity occasioned by the febrile matter.
1783. Pott, Chirurg., Wks. II. 137. Calculated … to quiet the febrile heat.
1794. Sullivan, View Nat., IV. 255. We were, consequently, all in a febrile state. We could not eat.
1844. Kinglake, Eüthen, v. 69. The febrile irritation of the frame.
Hence Febrility, the state of being febrile, feverishness. † Febrilous a. Obs. rare–1. = FEBRILE b.
1873. R. Barnes, Dis. Women, 96. There is a state of febrility, of vertigo, of swimming of the eyes, the eyes are suffused, and nervous symptoms of an hysterical kind are frequent.
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 54. In proportion as the local process is less acute and less extensive there is less attendant febrility.
1651. Biggs, New Disp., ¶ 194. did not condemn their febrilous essence of heat.
