adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a feverish manner: † a. lit. With the symptoms of fever (obs.). b. fig. As if under the influence of fever; excitedly, fitfully, nervously, restlessly.

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1647.  R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 227.

        All court the Childless, if they Paccius find,
Or rich Gallita feaverishly inclin’d,
They post up prayers, and to the Gods vow feasts;
There are that promise hecatombs of beasts.

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1684.  trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVI. 575. The Blood fermenting Feverishly through excess of Sulphur.

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1833.  Lamb, Elia (1860), 396. Feverishly looking for this night’s repetition of the folly.

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1852.  Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xxi. He watched Eva feverishly day by day.

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1893.  Daily News, 29 June, 6/4. In spite of a slight rally the closing was feverishly weak.

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