7 October 2016
ague
[ey-gyoo]
noun
1. Pathology. a malarial fever characterized by regularly returning paroxysms, marked by successive cold, hot, and sweating fits.
2. a fit of fever or shivering or shaking chills, accompanied by malaise, pains in the bones and joints, etc.; chill.
Origin of ague
Middle English, Latin
1250-1300; Middle English < Middle French, short for fievre ague acute fever < Latin febris acūta
Related forms
aguelike, adjective
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Examples from the Web for ague
Historical Examples
I could quarrel with the climate, but surely, if it is subject to the ague, there is a fever fit as well as a cold one.
Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution
John Adams
There had been a hard winter, and after it the poor woman had suffered from fever and ague.
The National Nursery Book
Unknown
Instead, however, the curtains only grew more and more agitated, shaking violently as if they had the ague.
Haunted Places in England
Elliot O’Donnell
I shook from head to foot, as if I had had the most violent fit of the ague.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
Charles H. Sylvester
The following day, and many days, he lay very ill with fever and ague, and hardly knew what he was doing.
Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12)
Various
Rosina leaned back in her corner and shook as if she had the ague.
A Woman’s Will
Anne Warner
As he raised it all present, including ague, bowed and bent the knee.
Serapis, Complete
Georg Ebers
He allows ye ain’t got no ague ; it’s jest wind and dyspepsy.
A Phyllis of the Sierras
Bret Harte
I have been ill for three weeks with pains in the back, and fever and ague everywhere.
An Englishman in Paris
Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam
The hand that drew the revolver from his belt trembled as with an ague.
The Fighting Edge
William MacLeod Raine
Today’s quote
I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
– Kahlil Gibran
On this day
7 October 1849 – death of Edgar Allan Poe, American poet and novelist, The Raven. Born 19 January 1809.
7 October 1913 – Henry Ford implements the moving assembly line … changing the face of manufacturing forever.
7 October 1931 – birth of Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa. Won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
7 October 2001 – United States invades Afghanistan as they hunt for Osama Bin Laden and to take down the Taliban government for allowing him to live there. It was nearly 10 years later, in 2011, that US Special Forces captured and killed Bin Laden in Pakistan.