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ague (iou)



ague noun & verb. ME.
[Old & mod. French from medieval Latin acuta use as noun (sc. febris fever) of fem. of Latin acutus ACUTE.]
A. noun.
An acute fever. Now dial. rare in gen. sense. ME.
esp. A malarial fever with cold, hot, and sweating stages (at first esp. the hot stage, later esp. the cold). LME.
WALCHEREN ague.
Any shivering fit. L16.
Comb.: ague-cake the spleen or another organ so enlarged as to be perceptible externally; ague-tree sassafras.
b. verb trans. Affect (as) with ague. Chiefly as agued ppl adjective. E17.