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Origin of aguish
First recorded in 1610–20; ague + -ish 1 ( def. )
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As late as 1874, Her Majesty’s Inspector for Schools described the area as “low-lying, aguish, and unhealthy, where no one would live if they could help it.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018
The Bishop and Presbytery thereupon suspended him, and he was summoned before the Synod in April, 1679, but did not attend, on account of "ane aguish distemper which had seized on him."
From Chronicles of Strathearn by W. B. Macdougall
There was an aguish pain in his spine that blinded him: since yesterday he had eaten nothing,—he had no money to buy a meal; he was a felon,—who would give him work?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various
The only house near it was the clerk's, and that not close to it: a poor, low, damp, aguish building, surrounded by grass as long as that in the neighbouring graveyard.
From Mildred Arkell, Volume II (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
I have a very aguish headache that takes me on alternate days, and for which I am ordered change of air, which, of course, in my wife's present state of health, is impossible.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey
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