Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
strangury .
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Examples
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It is said by some to be good in the treatment of rheumatism, stranguary, jaundice and flatulent cholic.
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I passed these four hours in sleep, waking up every quarter of an hour to pass water — an extraordinary occurrence, as I was not at all subject to stranguary; the heat was great, and I had not supped the evening before.
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Hence its use in obstinate constipation, in cholic, in the iliac passion, and in stranguary.
A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco Moses Stuart 1816
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I passed these four hours in sleep, waking up every quarter of an hour to pass water -- an extraordinary occurrence, as I was not at all subject to stranguary; the heat was great, and I had not supped the evening before.
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 10: under the Leads Giacomo Casanova 1761
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I passed these four hours in sleep, waking up every quarter of an hour to pass water -- an extraordinary occurrence, as I was not at all subject to stranguary; the heat was great, and I had not supped the evening before.
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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"others," is of the suppressive or stranguary kind.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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