Definitions

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.), obsolete See quinsy.

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  • noun Obsolete form of quinsy.

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Examples

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

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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