agueとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: āʹgyo͞o, IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.ɡju/

名詞

ague (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 agues)

1. (obsolete) An acute fever.
2. (pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
   • 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, page 200:

     He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.

   • 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

   fever and ague

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.

使用する際の注意点

The pronunciation /ˈeɪɡ/ is a common pronunciation by people to whom this is a book word (a word one learns by reading かつ has never heard spoken). /ˈeɪ.ɡju/ is the standard pronunciation.

関連する語

• acute
• ague cake
• ague tree

参考

• fainaigue

動詞

ague (三人称単数 現在形 agues, 現在分詞 aguing, 過去形および過去分詞形 agued)

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