Now rare. Forms: α. 4 squyn-, squinansy, 5–6 squynancy (5 sqyn-, sqwyn-), 5 -anci, 5–7 -ancie, 6– squinancy. β. 6 squinantie, -tye. [ad. med.L. squinancia, -antia, app. formed by confusion of Gr. συνάγχη and κυνάγχη CYNANCHE, both denoting diseases of the throat. Hence also F. esquinancie, † squinancie, -tie (MDu. squinancie, -tie), It. squinanzia, Sp. esquinancia, Pg. esquinencia.]

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  1.  Quinsy; = SQUINSY 1.

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  α.  1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxiv. (Bodl. MS.). Þis yuel mater … bredith sqynancy þat sleeþ in on day.

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a. 1400.  in Rel. Antiq., I. 51. For hym that haves the squynansy.

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c. 1530.  Judic. Urines, II. vii. 30. Humours that torneth in to apostume that is called Squinancia the squinancie.

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1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. (1568), 164. It that is purple in the floure … is good for the squinancie or choukes.

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1642.  Fuller, Holy & Prof. State, V. XII. 408. A good cure for the squinancie, but no satisfaction for lying.

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1676.  Phil. Trans., XI. 672. The Squinancy,… frequent there among Children.

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1748.  trans. Vegetius Renatus’ Distempers of Horses, 70. From which arises a loathing of their Food, suffocation in the Chops, and the Squinansy.

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1753.  N. Torriano, Gangrene Sore Throat, 63. John Anthony Soglia … gave his Observations on the gangrenous Squinancy in 1563.

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  β.  1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 6/1. A vehemente and great squinantie. Ibid., 29 b/2. Shee may be opened agaynst the Squinantye.

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  2.  A form or attack of quinsy; = SQUINSY 2.

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1596.  [see SQUINANCE].

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1611.  in Birch, Crt. & Times Jas. I. (1849), I. 134. The lord chamberlain was dangerously sick on the sudden of a squinancy, or quinsey.

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1653.  W. Ramesey, Astrol. Restored, 170. If necessity inforceth, thou needest not stand to elect a time (as in Apoplexies and Squinancies).

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1684.  Boyle, Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bod., iii. 29. The same Febril matter … causes in the first case a Pleurisie, in the 2d, a Squinancy.

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  3.  Special Combs.: squinancy berry, the black currant, Ribes nigrum; squinancy-wort (also † -woodruff), the quinsy-wort or small woodruff, Asperula cynanchica.

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1782.  Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2), IX. 6712/1. The fruit [black currants] is often called *squinancy berries.

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1863.  Prior, Plant-n., Squinancy berries, black currants, from their use in the sore throat, Ribes nigrum.

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1796.  Withering, Brit. Pl. (ed. 3), II. 186. Asperula cynanchica.… *Squinancy Woodroof.

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c. 1710.  Petiver, Cat. Ray’s Eng. Herbal, § 30. *Squinancy wort.

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1763.  Museum Rusticum, I. 307. A wild madder that grows in Wales and England on barren grounds, called Squinancy-wort; formerly used by the apothecaries, for the cure of a sore throat.

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1777.  Jacob, Catal. Plants, 98. Asperula Cynanchica, Squinancy Wort.

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1813.  Brewer, Beauties Engl. & Wales, XII. II. 21. The botanist will find here a great quantity of the Squinancy wort, or Synanchia Lugdunensis.

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1900.  W. H. Hudson, Nature in Downland, 54. Woodruff,… curiously named squinancy-wort.

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