Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A state of increasing irritation or violence, particularly in a case of fever or inflammation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Increase of irritation or violence, particularly the increase of a fever or disease.
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- noun archaic
increase ofirritation orviolence , particularly the increase of afever ordisease
Etymologies
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Latin exacerbescens, exacerbescentis, present participle of exacerbescere, inchoate of exacerbare. See exacerbate.
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The periods of hectic fever, supposed to arise from absorption of matter, obeys the diurnal periods like the above, having the exacerbescence towards evening, and its remission early in the morning, with sweats, or diarrhoea, or urine with white sediment.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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