Recent Examples on the WebThe fever and ague, diarrhea and dysentery had made dreadful havoc ... and the awful pictures of the tent town or encamping ground at Happy Valley are horrifying in the extreme. Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 29 May 2020 Now ague, biliousness, lumbago, Saint Vitus’s dance and dropsy.Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2019 The Bolt’s +200-mile range puts it beyond the nagging agues of range anxiety. Dan Neil, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French ague, from Medieval Latin (febris) acuta, literally, sharp fever, from Latin, feminine of acutus sharp — more at acute