This historical medical meaning refers to an illness producing alternating periods of chills, fever, and sweating.
The patient suffered repeated attacks of ague.
The old diary describes fever and ague.
This meaning often referred specifically to malaria because of its characteristic recurring fever and chills.
Settlers feared the ague in marshy regions.
Quinine was used historically to treat ague.
This figurative literary use compares intense trembling from fear or cold with the chills of fever.
An ague of fear passed through him.
She shook as if seized by an ague.
