ague

Meanings

Noun

• An acute fever.
• An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
• The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever
• A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
• Malaria.

Verb

• To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.

Origin

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