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Quotation dates: 1581-1691
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Squinancy, Squeinancy, n. Also: squinancé, squinnancie, squinacie, squenancé. [ME and e.m.E. sqynancy (Trevisa), squinancie (c1530), F. esquinancie, med. L. squinancia.] Quinsy.(a) 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 151/348.
This creuall draigon … quhom squinancie [v.r. squeinancy] thay call 1629 Boyd Balm of Gilead 70.
There he will set down a squinacie, crowels, or boils a1646 Wedderburn Voc. (1709) 13.
Angina, the squinance 1663 Red Bk. Grandtully II 176.
Our sister … has bein verie ill off a squinance c1670 Sc. Hist. Rev. XIII 227.
For the squinacie. Dry … dung and … mix it with honey [etc.] 1691 Thanes of Cawdor 386.
Your daughter became … sick of a squinnancie(b) 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 150/696 (see (a) above).
Squeinancy 1684 Rec. of Old Tolbooth in Bk. Old Edinb. C. IX 150.
He is tacken with a squenance in his throat & a great suelling in his face
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