quinsy

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Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592.

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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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  • The result was that the inflammation flew to the throat, and I had a quinsy which nearly carried me off. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • For example, in treating cynanche tonsillaris_, (quinsy), if treating with the positive pole in the mouth, we would not wish to run the current further than to the back of the neck; or, if treating externally, we would not wish to carry the negative electrode further from the positive than from side to side. —  A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
  • 'Know what About Master Hugo I didn't say one way or the other The doctor says it's a bitter bad quinsy, but there's just a chance. —  The Spinster 1905
  • I remember how a fit of the quinsy--most tedious of all sicknesses to an active child--was gilded and glorified into quite a fęte by my having Aunt Esther all to myself for two whole days, with nothing to do but amuse me. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
  • She charmed me into smiling at the very pangs which had made me weep before, and of which she described her own experiences in a manner to make me think that, after all, the quinsy was something with an amusing side to it. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866
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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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