[f. AIL v. + -MENT added to an Eng. vb.] The fact of ailing; bodily or mental indisposition; disorder, sickness.
1706. Phillips, Ailment, a light disorder or indisposition of the body.
1710. Philips, Pastorals, ii. 24. For much it may relieve thy Woe To let a Friend thy inward Ailment know.
1741. Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. xxvi. 279. Taken with slight stomach ailments.
1834. Ht. Martineau, Farrers, iii. 37. I know his ailments to be from an uneasy mind.
