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squinacy Now dial.
Forms: 3 swinacie, 4 swynacy; 4–5 squynacy (4 -ase), 4 -acie, 5 -ye, sqwynacye, skwynecy; 5 squinaci, -acye, -aseye, 5, 7 squinacie, -asie, 7, 9 squinacy.
[var. of squinancy, by early elision of the second n.]
= squinsy.
c1250Gen. & Exod. 1188 His wif and oðere birðe beren, ða ðe swinacie gan him nunmor deren. c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 2999 Som for glotoni sal haf þare, Als þe swynacy, þat greves ful sare. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 335 Demoscenes come forþ wiþ wolle aboute his nekke, and seide þat he hadde the squynacy. c1425St. Mary of Oignies ii. iii. in Anglia VIII. 157 A ful perlyous yuel, þat is aposteme of þe þroot, þat is callid þe squynacy. c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 215 For þe squinaseye. 1483Cath. Angl. 357/2 Þe Squynacy, squinancia, guttura. 1615H. Crooke Body of Man 766 These inward muscles being inflamed the most acute and sharpe Squinasie is ingendred. 1629Z. Boyd Balm of Gilead 70 There he will set down a squinacie, crowels, or boils. 1670T. Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 426 That one man dies..of an apoplexy in the head,..one of a squinacy in the throat. 1880Antrim & Down Gloss. 98 Squinacy, a quinsy. a1904in Eng. Dial. Dict. |