单词 | fever ague |
释义 | > as lemmasfever ague fever ague n. [after Anglo-Norman fevre ague, Anglo-Norman and Middle French fievre ague (see ague n.) and its etymon post-classical Latin febris acuta (12th cent. in British sources)] now rare (chiefly U.S. in later use) a disease characterized by acute or high fever (perhaps esp. when recurring periodically or combined with chills); esp. malaria; cf. ague n. 1, fever and ague at Phrases 1. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 333 (MED) Men of þat lond [sc. Irland] haueþ no feuere, but onliche þe feuere agu [L. febris..acuta]. ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 237 Euel accidentes, as a feuer acu..quakyng, crampe, ravynge, and swowning. 1526 Grete Herball cclxxviii. sig. Q.i/1 To cause one to slepe in a feuer ague confyct the rynde of mandrake with womans mylke and whyte of an egge, and lay it to the foreheed and temples. 1582 P. Levens Right Profitable Bk. All Disseases 41 Against thirst in the tongue,..make syrope with water that barly and Dragagant is sodd in, and it is conueniable for feuer agues. 1797 J. A. Graham Descriptive Sketch Vermont xii. 78 These lakes prove very detrimental to the inhabitants..for they are, at different seasons of the year, seized, and often cut off, with the fever-ague. 1839 C. M. Kirkland New Home xvi. 102 Why, you've got th' agur! woman alive! Why, I know the fever-agur as well as I know beans! 1950 M. F. McKeown Them was Days ix. 251 After they got to Pennsylvania, he'd figgered on buying her one, but he got down with the fever ague, just like my folks done. < as lemmas |
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