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fever lurden

fever lurden noun: lurgy. (laziness regarded as a notional disease).

Noun

fever lurden (uncountable)

  1. (dated, obsolete) Lurgy. (laziness regarded as a notional disease)
    • Faith of its owne nature is very laborious , and whiles it is ſtrong and healthy, tyes her ſelfe duely to her Taske , and is alwayes at worke : Yet ſometimes , the Fever Lurden having caught her , ſhee begins to bee lazie, and to have no lift to worke. Nay , then it is Holy-day , and Vacation-time...1635, Daniel Dike, “A Commentary vpon the Epistle to Philemon”, in The Workes of that Late Reverend Divine Maſter Daniel Dike, Batchelor in Diuinity, London: […] Iohn Beale, Verse 6, page 134

Forms of fever lurden

alternative formfever-lurden

Questions about fever lurden

What does fever lurden mean?
Fever lurden means lurgy. (laziness regarded as a notional disease).
What part of speech is fever lurden?
Fever lurden is a noun.

Words near fever lurden in the dictionary

  1. fever dreams
  2. fever fog
  3. fever fogs
  4. fever grass
  5. fever grasses
  6. fever lurden
  7. fever pitch
  8. fever powder
  9. fever swamp
  10. fever swamps
  11. fever tea

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