squinancy

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‘chirurgeon’ will become ‘surgeon’; ‘hemorrhoid’, ‘emerod’; ‘squinancy’ will become first ‘squinzey’ (Jeremy Taylor) and then ‘quinsey’;

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  1. Quinsy. Diseases that be verie perillous: … to wit, the Pleuresie, Squinancie, inflammation, sharpe Feuer, or Apoplexie. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 285.
  2. The quinsywort.

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  • Autolycus, Lycambe, Arachne, Phaedra, Leda, Achius, King of Lydia, and many thousands more, who were chiefly angry and vexed at this disaster therein, that, without being otherwise sick or evil-disposed in their bodies, by a touch only of the Pantagruelion they came on a sudden to have the passage obstructed, and their pipes, through which were wont to bolt so many jolly sayings and to enter so many luscious morsels, stopped, more cleverly than ever could have done the squinancy. —  Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
  • ‘chirurgeon’ will become ‘surgeon’; ‘hemorrhoid’, ‘emerod’; ‘squinancy’ will become first ‘squinzey’ (Jeremy Taylor) and then ‘quinsey’; —  English Past and Present
 

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  1. Also contr. squincy, squinsy; from Middle English squinacie, sqwinacie, from Old French esquinancie, squinancie, quinsy: see quinsy.
 

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