agueproof
adjEtymology From ague + -proof.
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Resistant to the ague.
- Go to, they are not men o' their words: they told me I was every thing; 'tis a lie; I am not agueproof.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
- The infant voice spoken of by Rosolato believes that it is everything, and can swallow down the world, but testifies in its suffering that it is not agueproof.2002, Patrick Campbell, Adrian Kear, Psychoanalysis and Performance: