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BNC: 37288 COCA: 37139
BNC: 37288 COCA: 37139
1
: a fever (such as malaria) marked by paroxysms (see paroxysm sense 1) of chills, fever, and sweating that recur at regular intervals
2
: a fit of shivering
aguish adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The 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

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of ague was in the 14th century
BNC: 37288 COCA: 37139

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