Citations:befevered

Adjective: "afflicted with fever"
Charlotte Connor: Her grandmother's bed was warm and quilty. Frasier Crane: And why is she lying there? Because she's feeling all "befevered" again?
 * 1865 — T. A. B. Spratt, Travels and Researchs in Crete, Volume II, John Van Voorst (1865), page 24:
 * The miserable and befevered village of Fotia, containing about a dozen houses, stands in about the middle of the site, between the acropolis and the chapel; and it derives its proverbial insalubrity from the stagnation of the Lethæus in a marsh in front of it to the east, just before its escape through the contracted valley passing beneath the acropolis of Phæstus and communicating with the maritime plain of Debaki.
 * 1878 — George Dennis, The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, John Murray (1878), page 236:
 * The place is squalid beyond description, almost in utter ruin, desolated in summer by malaria, and at no time containing more that some hundred and fifty befevered souls
 * 1884 — James Hannington, "My Journey in Africa", The Churchman, February 1884:
 * Befevered as I was, I bounded from my seat, seized him, dragged him into his seat, and defied him to move.
 * 1904 — John Worrell Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, self-published (1904), page 118:
 * Nor pangs of pain and heavy langour
 * That press and sickening fill
 * My body, thin my blood, shade my brain
 * With clouds of squalid gloom, like miasmatic mists
 * That haunted befevered vales;
 * 1939 — Ben Arid (pseudonym of Melville Clemens Barnard), Putting "It" in the Column, De Vorss & Co. (1939), page 85:
 * Indeed, I am convinced that there is no microbe or germ, however tough and wicked he may be, that could survive the repeated shocks upon his armor of a series of deep, lusty guffaws deftly produced by the skilled medico in the heart cockles of his befevered patient!
 * 1977 — The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822 to 1852, Johns Hopkins University Press (1977), ISBN 0801817986, page 184:
 * And then Hurrah for blue water, & if ever a poor beshaken & befevered set of fellows could send home their topsails nimbly, we shall, for everyone thinks that he shall recover his strength & spirits & be somewhat less certain of being on the sick in course of a week.
 * 2001 — William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, Penguin (2002), ISBN 9780142001509, page 285:
 * See John Smith swollen & befevered, his teeth clinking and rattling unto the iron plates on his brigandine vest.
 * 2004 — May 13, Christopher Lloyd & Joe Keenan, "Goodnight, Seattle", episodes 11-23/24 of Frasier, 00:08:16-00:08:30:
 * Frasier Crane: Use it in a sentence.


 * 2009 — Christine Blevins, The Tory Widow, Berkley (2009), ISBN 9781101032442, unnumbered page:
 * Anne swiped the mobcap from her head, befevered a-sudden, with a lump in her throat as if she'd just swallowed a toad whole.