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Feverfew. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Feverfew Forms: 1 féferfuȝe, -fuȝie, 5 fevyrfue, 6 -fewe, fewerfew, 7 feverfue, feaverfew, Sc. feverfoylie, 5– feverfew. See also FEATHERFEW, FETTERFOE. [OE. féferfuȝe, -fuȝie, ad. late L. febrifuga, L. febrifugia, f. L. febri- (febris) fever + fug-āre to drive away.

1   The mod. form cannot directly descend from the OE.; its source is the AF. *fevrefue (fewerfue c. 1265 in Wr.-Wülck., 556), which normally represents the Lat. Under FEATHERFEW (a corruption suggested by the ‘feather-like’ appearance of the leaves) will be found forms in -foy (:—OE. -fuȝie), which in some dialects has been corrupted into -foil. The name feather-foil has by botanical writers been applied to another ‘feather-leaved’ plant: see FEATHER sb. 19.]

2   a.  The plant Pyrethrum Parthenium. b. dial. The Erythræa Centaurium.

3 c. 1000.  Ælfric, Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 134. Febrefugia … feferfuge.

4 c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., I. 134. Curmelle feferfuȝe.

5 c. 1415.  Eng. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 645. Hec febrifuga, fevyrfew.

6 1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. 79 b. The new writers hold … that feuerfew is better for weomen.

7 1579.  Langham, Gard. Health (1633), 234. Feuerfue comforteth the stomacke, and is good for the feuer quotidian.

8 1673.  Wedderburn, Voc., 18 (Jam.). Matricaria, feverfoylie.

9 1737.  Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. iv. 258. Feverfew, Catmint, Pennyroyal, each 3 Handfuls.

10 1861.  Miss Pratt, Flower. Pl., III. 314. Common Fever-few.

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