ague
Pathology. a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold, hot, and sweating fits.
a fit of fever or shivering or shaking chills, accompanied by malaise, pains in the bones and joints, etc.; chill.
Origin of ague
1Other words from ague
- a·gue·like, adjective
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How to use ague in a sentence
Wherever I have afforded my salutary presence, fevers have ceased to burn and agues to shake the human fabric.
Library Notes | A. P. RussellThe next winter, 1557, the quarterne agues continued in like manner, or more vehemently than they had done the last yere.
As a stimulating expectorant and diaphoretic; in chronic catarrhs, low fevers, agues, &c.
Now of diseases some are cronical and of long duration, as quartane Agues, Scurvy, etc.
The Works of Sir Thomas Browne (Volume 2 of 3) | Thomas BrowneIn the summer pestilential fevers and agues crept out of the marshes and wasted us.
Carette of Sark | John Oxenham
British Dictionary definitions for ague
/ (ˈeɪɡjuː) /
a fever with successive stages of fever and chills esp when caused by malaria
a fit of shivering
Origin of ague
1Derived forms of ague
- aguish, adjective
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