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発音

• enPR: āʹgyo͞o, IPA: /ˈeɪ.ɡju/

名詞

ague (countable and uncountable, plural agues)

1. (obsolete) An acute fever.
2. (pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
   • 1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 8, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 163:

     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.

   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, pages 35–36:

     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 an 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 and has never heard spoken). /ˈeɪ.ɡju/ is the standard pronunciation.

派生語

関連する語

• acute

参考

• fainaigue

動詞

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.

アナグラム

• gaue