agueproof
English
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[edit]agueproof (not comparable)
- Resistant to the ague.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi]:
- Go to, they are not men o' their words: they told me I was every thing; 'tis a lie; I am not agueproof.
- 2002, Patrick Campbell, Adrian Kear, Psychoanalysis and Performance:
- The infant voice spoken of by Rosolato believes that it is everything, and can swallow down the world, but testifies in its suffering that it is not agueproof.