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noun
dialect, rare Scottish, BritishOriginally: the disease ague (malaria). Later also (in extended use): hysterics; great excitement.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in Alexander Montgomerie (c1550–1598), poet and courtier. Originally a northern and Scots variant of access.
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