aguish

American  

[ey-gyoo-ish] / ˈeɪ gyu ɪʃ /

adjective

1. producing, resembling, or resulting from ague.

2. easily affected by or subject to fits of ague.

3. shaking; quivering.

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Other Word Forms

• aguishly adverb

Etymology

Origin of aguish

First recorded in 1610–20; ague + -ish ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

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

She herself was weary, and quivering in all her limbs, hot and yet cold, with an aguish feeling.

From The Broom-Squire by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

In the mean time he was again laid prostrate by another violent attack of aguish fever; and when able to write in June, 1827, he expressed himself as “completely wearied and worn down with vexation.”

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel

Its flat, sandy aguish scenery was not to his taste.” 

From Immortal Memories by Shorter, Clement King

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 Ward, Samuel