Ague vs. Rigor — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ague and Rigor
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Ague
A febrile condition in which there are alternating periods of chills, fever, and sweating. Used chiefly in reference to the fevers associated with malaria.
Rigor
Strictness or severity, as in action or judgment
"The desert fostered a closed world of faith and rigor and harsh judgment.
Ague
A chill or fit of shivering.
Rigor
A harsh or trying circumstance; a hardship or difficulty
The rigors of working in a coal mine.
Ague
(obsolete) An acute fever.
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Rigor
(Archaic) A harsh or severe act.
Ague
(pathology) An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
Rigor
Strictness in adhering to standards or a method; exactitude
"To study the brain with scientific rigor, behaviorists logically restricted their experiments to ones in which the brain was the source of measurable effects" (Robert Pollack).
Ague
The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever
Fever and ague
Rigor
A standard or exacting requirement, as of a field of study
The intellectual rigors of advanced mathematics.
Ague
A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
Rigor
(Medicine) Shivering or trembling, as caused by a chill.
Ague
(obsolete) Malaria.
Rigor
(Physiology) A state of rigidity in living tissues or organs that prevents response to stimuli.
Ague
(transitive) To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
Rigor
(Obsolete) Stiffness or rigidity.
Ague
An acute fever.
Rigor
Alternative spelling of rigour
Ague
An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
Rigor
(medicine) A feeling of cold with shivering accompanied by a rise in body temperature.
Ague
The cold fit or rigor of the intermittent fever; as, fever and ague.
Rigor
Rigidity; stiffness.
Ague
A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
Rigor
A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever.
Ague
To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
Rigor
The becoming stiff or rigid; the state of being rigid; rigidity; stiffness; hardness.
The rest his lookBound with Gorgonian rigor not to move.
Ague
A fit of shivering
Rigor
See 1st Rigor, 2.
Ague
Successive stages of chills and fever that is a symptom of malaria
Rigor
Severity of climate or season; inclemency; as, the rigor of the storm; the rigors of winter.
Ague
A mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
Rigor
Stiffness of opinion or temper; rugged sternness; hardness; relentless severity; hard-heartedness; cruelty.
All his rigor is turned to grief and pity.
If I shall be condemn'dUpon surmises, . . . I tell you'T is rigor and not law.
Rigor
Exactness without allowance, deviation, or indulgence; strictness; as, the rigor of criticism; to execute a law with rigor; to enforce moral duties with rigor; - opposed to lenity.
Rigor
Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
The prince lived in this convent with all the rigor and austerity of a capuchin.
Rigor
Violence; force; fury.
Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay.
Rigor
Something hard to endure;
The asperity of northern winters
Rigor
The quality of being logically valid
Rigor
Excessive sternness;
Severity of character
The harshness of his punishment was inhuman
The rigors of boot camp
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