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Definitions

Adverb

1. 1
   In an aguish manner; as though suffering from ague. archaic

   "I was in the ivy summer-house, and came out shivering with cold, as if aguishly affected."

Example

More examples

"I was in the ivy summer-house, and came out shivering with cold, as if aguishly affected."

Etymology

From aguish + -ly.

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