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Tertian   Listen
noun
Tertian  n.  
1.
(Med.) A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
2.
A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.






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"Tertian" Quotes from Famous Books



... 1355 was a critical month for our poet. It was then that the tertian ague commonly attacked him, and this year it obliged him to pass a whole month in bed. He was just beginning to be convalescent, when, on the 9th of September, 1355, a friar, from the kingdom of Naples, entered his chamber, and gave him ...
— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch

... euer you come of women, come in quickly to sir Iohn: A poore heart, hee is so shak'd of a burning quotidian Tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold. Sweet men, ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare

... says, "about three o'clock in the afternoon, with a white head, and something a round belly." But if he came into the world in the evening with these marks of age, he departs out of it in the morning in all the follies and vanities of youth;—"He was shaked" (we are told) "of a burning quotidian tertian;—the young King had run bad humours on the knight;—his heart was fracted and corroborate; and a' parted just between twelve and one, even at the turning of the tide, yielding the crow a pudding, and passing directly into ARTHUR'S BOSOM, if ever man went into ...
— Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare • D. Nichol Smith

... conversation they appeared to be) had been confined to the wheels. The robbers had stripped them both nearly to the skin, and they were so numbed with the cold that they could scarcely stand when they were unbound,—the poor girl especially, who shivered as if suffering under a tertian ague. I proposed that they should enter the carriage as the best shelter they could receive from the bitter keen wind which blew, and they agreed to the ...
— The Pacha of Many Tales • Captain Frederick Marryat

... Dr. Laycock, "On a General Law of Vital Periodicity," 'British Association,' 1842. Dr. Macculloch, 'Silliman's North American Journal of Science,' vol. XVII. page 305, has seen a dog suffering from tertian ague. Hereafter I shall return to this subject.), to that mysterious law, which causes certain normal processes, such as gestation, as well as the maturation and duration of various diseases, to follow lunar ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

... began to hope. Gideon Spilett said nothing. It might be that the fever was not quotidian, but tertian, and that it would return next day. Therefore, he awaited the next ...
— The Mysterious Island • Jules Verne

... on Cooper's Island, for the ship's company, and one was also pitched, by Mr Banks's desire, for Tupia, who was anxious to escape from the close air of the town. Mr Banks accompanied him, and remained with him for two days, till compelled by his own illness (a regular tertian ague) to return to his lodgings. Mr Monkhouse, the surgeon of the ship, was the first victim, and Dr Solander could with difficulty crawl out of lied to attend his funeral, which Mr Banks, from illness, was unable to do. On the 9th the poor young boy Tayeto died, and Tupia, ...
— Captain Cook - His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries • W.H.G. Kingston



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