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Origin of aguish
First recorded in 1610–20; ague + -ish 1 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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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
Other physicians testify to the fact, that near the Thames marshes, the prevalent diseases are all of them of an aguish type, intermittent and remittent, and that they are accompanied with much dysentery.
From Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health by George E. (George Edwin) Waring
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
It fares not otherwise with the soule then with the body: besides the native & radicall heat, the principall instrument of life, there are aguish and distempered heats, the causes of sicknesse and death.
From A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich by Samuel Ward
By these Methods frequently the aguish Paroxysms became gradually milder, and at last vanished.
From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro
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