ˈsquinancy Now rare.
Forms: α. 4 squyn-, 7 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.]
1. Quinsy; = squinsy 1.
| α 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxiv. (Bodl. MS.), Þis yuel mater..bredith sqynancy þat sleeþ in on day. a 1400 in Rel. Antiq. I. 51 For hym that haves the squynansy. c 1530 Judic. Urines ii. vii. 30 Humours that torneth in to apostume that is called Squinancia the squinancie. 1562 Turner Herbal ii. (1568) 164 It that is purple in the floure..is good for the squinancie or choukes. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. State v. xii. 408 A good cure for the squinancie, but no satisfaction for lying. 1676 Phil. Trans. XI. 672 The Squinancy,..frequent there among Children. 1748 tr. Vegetius Renatus' Distempers of Horses 70 From which arises a loathing of their Food, suffocation in the Chops, and the Squinansy. 1753 N. Torriano Gangrene Sore Throat 63 John Anthony Soglia..gave his Observations on the gangrenous Squinancy in 1563. |
| β 1597 A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 6/1 A vehemente and great squinantie. Ibid. 29 b/2 Shee may be opened agaynst the Squinantye. |
2. A form or attack of quinsy;
= squinsy 2.
| 1596 [see squinance]. 1611 in Birch Crt. & Times Jas. I (1849) I. 134 The lord chamberlain was dangerously sick on the sudden of a squinancy, or quinsey. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 170 If necessity inforceth, thou needest not stand to elect a time (as in Apoplexies and Squinancies). 1684 Boyle Porous. Anim. Bod. iii. 29 The same Febril matter..causes in the first case a Pleurisie, in the 2{supd}, a Squinancy. |
3. Special
Combs.:
squinancy berry, the black currant,
Ribes nigrum;
squinancy-wort (also
† -woodruff), the quinsy-wort or small woodruff,
Asperula cynanchica.
| 1782 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) IX. 6712/1 The fruit [black currants] is often called *squinancy berries. 1863 Prior Plant-n., Squinancy berries, black currants, from their use in the sore throat, Ribes nigrum. |
| 1796 Withering Brit. Pl. (ed. 3) II. 186 Asperula cynanchica... *Squinancy Woodroof. |
| c 1710 Petiver Cat. Ray's Eng. Herbal §30, *Squinancy wort. 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. 1777 Jacob Catal. Plants 98 Asperula Cynanchica, Squinancy Wort. 1813 Brewer Beauties Engl. & Wales XII. ii. 21 The botanist will find here a great quantity of the Squinancy wort, or Synanchia Lugdunensis. 1900 W. H. Hudson Nature in Downland 54 Woodruff,..curiously named squinancy-wort. |