Ague definition

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A fever, usually malarial, marked by regularly recurring chills.
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A febrile condition in which there are alternating periods of chills, fever, and sweating. Used chiefly in reference to the fevers associated with malaria.
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A chill or fit of shivering.
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A chill; fit of shivering.
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A febrile condition in which there are alternating periods of chills, fever, and sweating. Used chiefly in reference to the fevers associated with malaria.
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A chill or fit of shivering.
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(pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
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The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.
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A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.

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To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
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Origin of ague

  • Middle English from Old French (fievre) ague sharp (fever) from Medieval Latin (febris) acūta from Latin feminine of acūtus acute

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English agu, ague, from Old French and Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aigüe), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from acūtus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Cognate to acute.

    From Wiktionary

Ague Sentence Examples

  • An attack of the ague sent him home, and on recovery, having resolved to attend a high school and fit himself to become a teacher, he passed the next four years in a hard struggle with poverty and in an earnest effort to secure an education, studying for a short time in the Geauga Seminary atChester, Ohio.

  • A single paroxysm of simple ague may come upon the patient in the midst of good health or it may be preceded by some malaise.

  • They both contracted ague and fever on the survey from which he died.

  • The boy had the disease for three years, ending with tertian ague.

  • He bought a vigna in the Borgo near the Vatican, and thereon erected a sumptuous palace after designs by Bramante; and it was here, in the summer of 1503, that he entertained the pope and Cesare Borgia at a banquet that went on till nightfall despite the unhealthy season of the year, when ague in its most malignant form was rife.

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