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quartan

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈkwɔːtən/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted aanqrtuStarts with QEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. occurring every fourth day (especially the fever and weakness of malaria)

Word origin

From Anglo-Norman quartaine, Old French quartaine, from Latin quartāna (short for febris quartana), noun use of feminine form of quartānus (“recurring every four days”), from quartus (“fourth”).

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  • an Egyptian at Alexandria, whose quartan resisted the strongest applications of European physic, was effectually healed by the actual cautery, which a certain Arab Shaykh applied to the crown of his head.
  • Pork, of all meats, is[…]naught for queasy stomachs, insomuch that frequent use of it may breed a quartan ague.

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