Affected by or suffering from calenture; delirious or feverish, especially in a maritime context.
Past participle of calenture, formed by adding -ed to the noun calenture to create an adjective describing a state affected by the disease.
This word captures a very specific moment in maritime history when tropical diseases were so common that sailors had a special word for fever-induced madness—it's like the disease was so familiar they had to name it.
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