Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Growing hot.
Wiktionary
- adj. Growing hot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Growing hot.
Etymologies
- Latin fervescens, present participle of fervescere to become boiling hot, inchoate, from fervere. See fervent. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Clinton, who always grunted at intervals, and blew his nose stentoriously when fervescent, was unusually aggressive.”
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