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▪ I. ague|ˈeɪgjuː|
Forms: 4 aguwe, 4–6 agew, 4–7 agu, 5 agwe, 6 agewe, 4– ague.
[a. OFr. ague:—L. acūta sharp, used subst. in med.L. for an ‘acute fever,’ fièvre ague: see acute a. 2.]
†1. An acute or violent fever. Obs.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 336, I cacche þe crompe..Or an ague in such an angre. 1393Ibid. C. xxiii. 84 Bules and bocches · and brennyng Aguwes. 1494Fabyan vii. 377 Y⊇ kynge was taken with suche a flixe, and therwith an agu, that he kept his bedde. 1541Barnes Wks. (1573) 325/1 Peters wyues mother had a gret agew. 1611Bible Lev. xxvi. 16 And the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes [Vulg. ardore, Wyclif brennyng.]
2. esp. A malarial fever, marked by successive fits or paroxysms, consisting of a cold, hot, and sweating stage. The name ague was apparently at first given to the burning or feverish stage, but afterwards more usually to the cold or shivering stage, as being the most striking external character of the disease.
c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 140 Ye schul have a fever terciane, Or an agu, that may be youre bane. 1440Promp. Parv., Agwe, sekenes, Acuta, querquera. 1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 16 Hee that hath bin shooke with a fierce ague. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. ii. 113 That same Ague which hath made you leane. 1678Butler Hudibr. iii. i. 653 'Tis but an ague that's reverst, Whose hot fit takes the patient first. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 101 An Ague very violent; the Fit held me seven Hours, cold Fit, and hot, with faint Sweats after it. 1859Masson Milton I. 142 Confined to College by an attack of ague (then the prevalent disease of the fenny Cambridge district).
3. loosely or fig. Any fit of shaking or shivering, like the cold stage of ague; quaking.
1589Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 14 And saies he will ergo Martin into an ague. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. i. 23 My winde cooling my broth, Would blow me to an Ague. 1608Bp. Hall Epistles i. ii, All these earthly delights! If they were sound, they are but a good day between tuo agues. 1750Gray Let. in Poems (1775) 217 But soon his rhetorick forsook him..A sudden fit of ague shook him, He stood as mute as poor Macleane. 1813Scott Rokeby ii. xi, For not to rank nor sex confined Is this vain ague of the mind.
4. attrib. and Comb., as in ague-fen, ague-fit, ague-sore, etc.; instrumental, as in ague-struck, ague-shaken, etc.: ague-like; ague-drop, a solution of potassic arseniate, used as a remedy for ague; ague-grass, a name of the Aletris farinosa; ague-proof a., proof against ague; ague-shake v., to shake as with ague; ague-shell (see quot.); ague-spell, charm against ague; ague-cake, ague-tree, q.v.
1866Kingsley Herew. xv. 194 One who has just come from the ague-fens. 1587Golding De Mornay xii. 175 What feare, and what Agewfits they susteine in following their wicked lusts. 1858Froude Hist. Eng. III. xv. 350 Cromwell..had an ague-fit from anxiety. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. 13 An ague-like lover. 1687Clayton in Phil. Trans. XLI. 158 Some call it Ague-grass, others Ague-root, others Star-grass. 1605Shakes. Lear iv. vi. 107, I am not agu-proofe. 1653Shirley Cupid & Death 350 How will she ague-shake him with a frown! 1708in Phil. Trans. XXVI. 78 Gryphites, the Hawk's-Bill, or Ague-shell. 1745Gay Wks. I. 120 His Pills, his Balsams, and his Ague-spells.
▪ II. ague, v. rare.|ˈeɪgjuː|
[f. the n.]
To affect with, or as with, ague; to seize with a quaking.
1636Heywood Chall. for Beauty (T.) Whose aspect Would ague such as should but hear it told. 1796F. Burney Camilla v. vi, I am agued with trepidation. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Hist. Norm. III. 379 The victor of Hastings was agued with terror when receiving his prize. |