Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.), obsolete See
quinsy .
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- noun Obsolete form of
quinsy .
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‘chirurgeon’ will become ‘surgeon’; ‘hemorrhoid’, ‘emerod’; ‘squinancy’ will become first ‘squinzey’ (Jeremy Taylor) and then ‘quinsey’;
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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