different between ague vs gaue

English

Etymology

From Middle English agu, ague, borrowed from Middle French (fievre) aguë, “acute (fever)” (Modern French fièvre aiguë), from Late Latin (febris) acuta (“acute fever”), from Latin ac?tus (“sharp, acute”) + febris (“fever”).

Doublet of acute.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ??gyo?o, IPA^(key): /?e?.?ju/

Noun

ague (countable and uncountable, plural agues)

1. (obsolete) An acute fever.
2. (pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
   • 1867: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1867 Edition, chapter III.

     He shivered all the while so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off.
     "I think you have got the ague," said I.
     "I'm much of your opinion, boy," said he.
     "It's bad about here," I told him. "You've been lying out on the meshes, and they're dreadful aguish. Rheumatic too."

   • 1852: Susanna Moodie, "Roughing it in the Bush: or, Forest Life in Canada"

     'Ague and lake fever had attacked our new settlement. The men in the shanty were all down with it, and my husband was confined to his bed on each alternate day, unable to raise hand or foot, and raving in the delirium of the fever.'

   • 1810: Lord Byron, "Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos"

     'Twere hard to say who fared the best:
     Sad mortals! thus the Gods still plague you!
     He lost his labour, I my jest:
     For he was drowned, and I've the ague

3. The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever

4. A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
   • November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart

     I 'scap'd with one cold fit of an ague

5. (obsolete) Malaria.
   • 1979, Octavia Butler, Kindred:

     Where I'm from, people have learned that mosquitoes carry ague.

Usage notes

The pronunciation /?e??/ is a common pronunciation by people to whom this is a book word (a word one learns by reading and has never heard spoken). /?e?.?ju/ is the standard pronunciation.

Related terms

• acute
• ague cake
• ague tree

Translations

See also

• fainaigue

Verb

ague (third-person singular simple present agues, present participle aguing, simple past and past participle agued)

1. (transitive) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

Translations

Anagrams

• gaue

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English agu, ague, from Middle French (fievre) aguë (“acute (fever)”). Cognate with English ague.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???(j)u/, /e??(j)u/

Noun

ague (plural agues)

1. ague (acute fever)

References

• “ague” in Eagle, Andy, editor, The Online Scots Dictionary^[1], 2016.

English

Verb

gaue

1. simple past tense of giue; obsolete spelling of gave

Anagrams

• ague