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febrific

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fe·brif·ic  (f-brfk)
adj.
1. Producing fever.
2. Having a fever; feverish.
[Latin febris, fever + -fic.]
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"Very likely," says the doctor: "I have known people eat in a fever; and it is very easily accounted for; because the acidity occasioned by the febrile matter may stimulate the nerves of the diaphragm, and thereby occasion a craving which will not be easily distinguishable from a natural appetite; but the aliment will not be concreted, nor assimilated into chyle, and so will corrode the vascular orifices, and thus will aggravate the febrific symptoms.
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