quinsy

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  1. noun Acute inflammation of the tonsils and the surrounding tissue, often leading to the formation of an abscess.

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  • Lord Keeper is suddenly taken ill of a quinsy, and some lords are commissioned, I think Lord Trevor, [17] to prorogue the Parliament in his stead. —  The Journal to Stella
  • The result was that the inflammation flew to the throat, and I had a quinsy which nearly carried me off. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • The quinsy sore throat which killed him could not be cured by any means then known to medical art. —  George Washington
  • [Footnote 1: It was called at the time a quinsy.] [Footnote 2: See Memoir on The Last Sickness of Washington, by James Jackson, M.D. In response to an inquiry as to the modern treatment of this disease, the late D.. F.H. H.oper of Boston, well known as an authority on diseases of the throat, wrote me: —  George Washington
  • I followed her home. —  The crush
 

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  1. Middle English, from Medieval Latin quinancia and Old French quinancie, both from Greek kunankhē, dog quinsy, dog-collar : kuōn, kun-, dog; see kwon- in Indo-European roots + ankhein, to squeeze; see angh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also quinsey, quinsy, quincy (also quinancy); reduced from early squincy, *squinsy, squinzie, a contracted form of squinancy, from Old French squinancie, squinance, esquinance, French esquinancie (cf. also Old French quinatique, quinatike) = Spanish esquinancia = Portuguese esquinencia = Italian schinanzia, quinsy, with prosthetic s, from Late Latin cynanche, from Greek κυνάγχη, a kind of sore throat, also a dog-collar, literally ‘dog-throttling,’ from κύων (κυν-), dog, + αγχειν, choke, throttle. Cf. cynanche.
 

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