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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ague /ˈeɪgjuː/
noun archaic malaria or another illness involving fever and shivering.

■ a fever or shivering fit.

– derivatives
agued adjective,
aguish adjective.
– origin ME: via OFr. from med. L. acuta (febris) ‘acute (fever)’.



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