单词 | spring ague |
释义 | > as lemmasspring ague spring ague n. now historical a mild intermittent fever occurring in the spring. ΚΠ 1681 J. Warner Vindic. Eng. Catholiks (ed. 2) i. 21 I sayd, Papists Rebellions were like spring Agues, painfull; not dangerous. 1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm 22 They might, instead of making a cure,..turn a spring-ague or an autumn-surfeit into an epidemical malignant fever. 1827 T. J. Graham Mod. Domest. Med. (ed. 3) 213 Spring agues are, in general, less severe and obstinate, and less liable to be followed by dangerous consequences, than the autumnal. 1904 J. F. Payne Eng. Med. Anglo-Saxon Times 43 There is also lent-adle, or spring disease, which must refer to spring agues or tertians. 2000 O. Reiss Med. in Colonial Amer. 153 Spring agues were shorter and milder. < as lemmas |
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