English
ague
Pronunciation
  • enPR: āʹgyo͞o, IPA: /ˈeɪ.ɡju/
Noun

ague

  1. (obsolete) An acute fever.
  2. (pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
    • 1867: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1867 Edition, chapter III.
      He shivered all the while so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off.
      "I think you have got the ague," said I.
      "I'm much of your opinion, boy," said he.
      "It's bad about here," I told him. "You've been lying out on the meshes, and they're dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too."
    • 1852: Susanna Moodie, "Roughing it in the Bush: or, Forest Life in Canada"
      'Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the shanty were all down with it, and my husband was confined to his bed on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving in the delirium of the fever.'
    • 1810: Lord Byron, "Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos"
      'Twere hard to say who fared the best:
      Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
      He lost his labour, I my jest:
      For he was drowned, and I've the ague
  3. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever
    fever and ague
  4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
  5. (obsolete) Malaria.
    • 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:
      Where I'm from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague.
Related terms Translations Translations Verb

ague (agues, present participle aguing; past and past participle agued)

  1. (transitive) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
Translations
  • Russian: лихорадить


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