ferbile

English

Adjective

ferbile (comparative more ferbile, superlative most ferbile)

1. Misspelling of febrile.
   • 1837, Abraham Colles, “On the Use of Mercury in Venereal Hectic Fever”, in Practical Observations on the Venereal Disease, and on the use of Mercury‎^[1], Philadelphia: A. Waldie, page 131:

     So that here the practice was in direct opposition to two rules which I believe are pretty generally acted on by the proffession, viz. 1st. Not to give mercury while there is much ferbile excitement; […]

   • 1925 August, Dalamere F. Hardbridge, “The Conjunctiva”, in William H. Crisp, editor, The Ophthalmic Yearbook‎^[2], volume 21, Herrick Book and Stationery Company, →OCLC, page 59:

     His patient was a female aged 28 years, with a ferbile inflammation of the naso-pharynx.

   • 2015 March, Asit K. Pattnaik, Michael A. Whitt, “Overview of Rhabo- and Filoviruses”, in Asit K. Pattnaik, Michael A. Whitt, editors, Biology And Pathogenesis Of Rhabdo- And Filoviruses‎^[3], World Scientific, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 5–6:

     The bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV), a member of the ephemerovrus genus of Rhabdoviridae family causes an acute ferbile illness in cattle with low mortality rates, […]