Word Meanings - INIRRITATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. E. Darwin.

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• FEVER
  A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• FEVERISH
  1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
• FEVERET
  A slight fever. Ayliffe.
• INIRRITATIVE
  Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. E. Darwin.
• DARWINIAN
  Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original forms or elements. Note: This theory was put forth by Darwin in 1859 in a work entitled "The Origin
• FEVEROUS
  1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse. All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. Milton. 3. Having the tendency to produce fever;
• FEVERY
  Feverish. B. Jonson.
• DARWINIANISM
  Darwinism.
• FEVERWORT
  See FEVER
• ACCOMPANIER
  He who, or that which, accompanies. Lamb.
• ACCOMPANIST
  The performer in music who takes the accompanying part. Busby.
• ACCOMPANIMENT
  That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry. Specifically:
• FEVEROUSLY
  Feverishly. Donne.
• EXCITEMENT
  A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues. (more info) 1. The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement
• DARWINISM
  The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. Huxley.
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• BUCK FEVER
  Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting.
• ENFEVER
  To excite fever in. A. Seward.
• CHAGRES FEVER
  A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama.
• OVEREXCITEMENT
  Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.
• LAZARET FEVER
  Typhus fever.
• NEO-DARWINISM
  The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example