aguishadj.

1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xxv. 171/3 (in list) Agewish.

1602 R. Marbecke Def. Tabacco sig. C2 If it do giue any heate, yet that heate is rather a familiar, and a pleasing heate, then an immoderate, extraordinarie, and an aguish distemperature.

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. ii. sig. N8^v (heading) The immoderate Heat and Cold of the Aguish Fit.

1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxvi. 166 The dews here fall heavy; and the heat of the sun..is productive of colds and aguish pains.

1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. ix. 453 She resisted being undressed, and was seized with an aguish shivering fit.

1825 Lancet 1 Jan. 466/2 I..applied the power of preventing the return of aguish paroxysms as a test of the remedial virtues of the Sulphate of Quina.

1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax II. iii. 50 It was..a low, aguish fever.

1907 W. Awdry in H. H. Montgomery Mankind & Church iii. i. 158 But the [Japanese] climate is not really unhealthy. There is, and must be, an aguish kind of malarial fever, but it is not severe.

1980 Jrnl. Hist. Geogr. 6 377 (note) Sydenham, as early as 1676, did not regard the agues of the marsh as being of the same nature and origin as the agueish or intermittent fevers which occurred in epidemics all over England.

1585 A. H. in J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. sig. *9^v They [sc. writers] are alway aguish, for euery thing is bitter to their tast.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xxxviii. 248 There is nothing better..for leane agewish persons, then the vse of the pulpe of gourds.

1638 A. Cowley Loves Riddle iv. sig. E1 The aguish head of every tree..shooke as if it nodded.

a1668 W. Davenant Love & Honour in Wks. (1673) 241 Which left me feeble as an aguish Girl.

1775 D. Garrick Bon Ton ii. i. 39 I am quite aguish tonight.

1796 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) I. 203 You could n[ot] send an aguish man there.

1824 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XVI lxxxiii. 105 Both were thrown away amongst the fens; For wit hath no great friend in aguish folks.

1866 J. T. Trowbridge Lucy Arlyn xxi. 250 Again he stirred the fire with aguish hands.

1900 R. N. Carey Life's Trivial Round xvii. 199 Cataclysms and earthquakes..were nothing compared with my feelings when the governor's letter reached me... I was so aguish as I read it.

1922 Rec. Christian Work July 497/1 I know of some agueish Christians, said Dr. Cuyler, who hardly have strength enough to shake.

2007 A. Wroe Being Shelley (2008) ii. i. 118 The English rain..turned him aguish, bilious and weak.

a1602 W. Perkins Comm. Epist. Gal. (1604) vi. 542 It condemnes all deceitfull handling of the word,..in peruerting it with aguish and sottish conceits.

1625 J. Robinson Observ. v. 24 We must beware of that agueish goodnesse, which comes by fits onely, and when men are pleased.

1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 75 These tremblings and shiverings of the earth, or rather Aguish shaking fits.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xi. 202 So aguish and fantastical a thing is the Conscience of Men who have once departed from the Rule of Conscience.

1784 W. Hayley Marcella i. i, in Plays of Three Acts 114 'Tis the doom of age..To feel the fit of warm desire succeeded By terror's aguish tremblings.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. vi. 186 Contending parties..eying one another, in most aguish mood, of cold terror or hot rage.

1869 Times 9 Aug. 10/2 Prince worship seems to be a very aguish kind of thing, for it has its hot and cold fits.

1904 A. Castle & E. Castle Rose of World (1905) ii. i. 121 Jani at her elbow shivered with an aguish chatter of teeth.

1912 H. E. Rives Valiants of Virginia ix. 75 Again the aguish mirth agitated the other.

2008 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 21 Jan. 5 The consumer and business confidence shakes evident before Christmas are threatening to turn aguish.

1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. xvi. 31/1 The aire is temperate and pleasant, only towards the waters somewhat aguish.

1661 J. Howell Divers Hist. Disc. 312 His beams..dwell never so long upon the myry lake of Maeotis, the black turf'd moores of Holland, the aguish woose of Kent and Essex.

a1744 W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line in Westover MSS (1841) 22 Not so much as a Zealand frog could endure so aguish a situation.

1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 188 The nocturnal rheums of an aguish climate.

1819 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1959) IV. 943 I am just returned from a coaching tour in the aguish parts of Essex.

1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 54 A rich aguish flat, bordering the Missouri.

1905 W. H. P. Greswell Forests & Deer Parks Somerset i. 5 A sorry refuge was the forest of Petherton..with its aguish, undrained moors and unwholesome wastes.

1990 P. Fitzgerald Gate of Angels iii. xvii. 132 ‘I suppose the whole Fen country is agueish,’ I said.