agueproofとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

agueproof (not comparable)

1. Resistant to the ague.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene 6]:

     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.