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ˈsquinancy Now rare. Forms: α. 4 squyn-, 7 squinansy, 5–6 squynancy (5 sqyn-, sqwyn-), 5 -anci, 5–7 -ancie, 6– squinancy. β. 6 squinantie, -tye. [ad. med.L. squinancia, -antia, app. formed by confusion of Gr. συνάγχη and κυνάγχη cynanche, both denoting diseases of the throat. Hence also F. esquinancie, † squinancie, -tie (MDu. squinancie, -tie), It. squinanzia, Sp. esquinancia, Pg. esquinencia.] 1. Quinsy; = squinsy 1. α1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxiv. (Bodl. MS.), Þis yuel mater..bredith sqynancy þat sleeþ in on day. a1400in Rel. Antiq. I. 51 For hym that haves the squynansy. c1530Judic. Urines ii. vii. 30 Humours that torneth in to apostume that is called Squinancia the squinancie. 1562Turner Herbal ii. (1568) 164 It that is purple in the floure..is good for the squinancie or choukes. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. State v. xii. 408 A good cure for the squinancie, but no satisfaction for lying. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 672 The Squinancy,..frequent there among Children. 1748tr. Vegetius Renatus' Distempers of Horses 70 From which arises a loathing of their Food, suffocation in the Chops, and the Squinansy. 1753N. Torriano Gangrene Sore Throat 63 John Anthony Soglia..gave his Observations on the gangrenous Squinancy in 1563. β1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 6/1 A vehemente and great squinantie. Ibid. 29 b/2 Shee may be opened agaynst the Squinantye. 2. A form or attack of quinsy; = squinsy 2.
1596[see squinance]. 1611in Birch Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) I. 134 The lord chamberlain was dangerously sick on the sudden of a squinancy, or quinsey. 1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 170 If necessity inforceth, thou needest not stand to elect a time (as in Apoplexies and Squinancies). 1684Boyle Porous. Anim. Bod. iii. 29 The same Febril matter..causes in the first case a Pleurisie, in the 2d, a Squinancy. 3. Special Combs.: squinancy berry, the black currant, Ribes nigrum; squinancy-wort (also † -woodruff), the quinsy-wort or small woodruff, Asperula cynanchica.
1782Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) IX. 6712/1 The fruit [black currants] is often called *squinancy berries. 1863Prior Plant-n., Squinancy berries, black currants, from their use in the sore throat, Ribes nigrum.
1796Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) II. 186 Asperula cynanchica... *Squinancy Woodroof.
c1710Petiver Cat. Ray's Eng. Herbal §30, *Squinancy wort. 1763Museum Rusticum I. 307 A wild madder that grows in Wales and England on barren grounds, called Squinancy-wort; formerly used by the apothecaries, for the cure of a sore throat. 1777Jacob Catal. Plants 98 Asperula Cynanchica, Squinancy Wort. 1813Brewer Beauties Engl. & Wales XII. ii. 21 The botanist will find here a great quantity of the Squinancy wort, or Synanchia Lugdunensis. 1900W. H. Hudson Nature in Downland 54 Woodruff,..curiously named squinancy-wort. |