pyretic

[ pahy-ret-ik ]

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, affected by, or producing fever.

pyretic

/ paɪˈrɛtɪk /

adjective

1. pathol of, relating to, or characterized by fever Compare antipyretic

Other Words From

• postpy·retic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pyretic¹

1685–95; < New Latin pyreticus, equivalent to Greek pyret ( ós ) fever + Latin -icus -ic

Word History and Origins

Origin of pyretic¹

C18: from New Latin pyreticus, from Greek puretos fever, from pur fire

Example Sentences

His choreography was sharp, ecstatic, pyretic; while his dancers, swathed in brilliant fabrics and ornate feathered headpieces, merged the rhapsodic convulsions common to the Shango and Yoruba faiths with sleek pirouettes and dazzling leaps.

From The Guardian

Pyretic, pī-ret′ik, adj. pertaining to fever.—n. a remedy for fever.—ns.

From Project Gutenberg

The pyretic energy and frank self-examination here recall — it’s been observed before — Egon Schiele, similarly prolific and doomed.

From New York Times

“This,” he reflected, “is an age of generous display: the age of the sandwich-man, of Griffiths, of Pears’ legendary soap, and of Eno’s fruit salt which, by sheer brass and notoriety, and the most disgusting pictures I ever remember to have seen, has overlaid that comforter of my childhood, Lamplough’s pyretic saline.

From Project Gutenberg

Dig, whose means were not equal to his connections, produced, somewhat bashfully, a rather “high” cold chicken, some gingerbread, some pyretic saline, and a slab or two of home-made toffee.

From Project Gutenberg