Ague meaning

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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

  • Fever and ague prevail on the coast.

  • 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.

  • It is generally applied to the definite unhealthy condition of body known by a variety of names, such as ague, intermittent (and remittent) fever, marsh fever, jungle fever, hill fever, "fever of the country" and "fever and ague."

  • 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.

  • The point common to the various forms of ague is that the paroxysm ceases about midnight or early morning.

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