angor
(ˈæŋgə(r))
Also 5 angure, 7 angour.
[a. OFr. angor, angour:—L. angōr-em strangling, vexation, f. ang-ĕre to squeeze, strangle. Now only as a medical term, and more or less as Latin.]
† 1. Anguish (physical or mental). Obs.
| 1440 Promp. Parv., Angure or angwys, Angor, angustia. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. iii. (1641) 100/1 Man is loaden with ten thousand languors. All other Creatures onely feele the angors Of few Diseases. 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iv. 146 Inflamed with perpetual sparkes of fears, angors and agitations. a 1711 Ken Psyche Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 261 Her Hours in silent Anguors now ran waste. |
2. spec. A feeling of ‘anxiety and constriction in the precordial region, which accompanies many severe diseases; nearly synonymous with angina.’ Mayne Exp. Lex. 1853.
| 1666 Harvey Morb. Anglic. (J.) If the patient be surprised with a lipothymous angour. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Angor is reputed a bad symptom. 1839 in Hooper Med. Dict. |