Definition of "squinancy" []

• Alternative form of squinance. (noun)

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• "The Rabbins have a tradition, that the disease of the squinancy came into the world upon the account of tithes."
• "‘chirurgeon’ will become ‘surgeon’; ‘hemorrhoid’, ‘emerod’; ‘squinancy’ will become first ‘squinzey’ (Jeremy Taylor) and then ‘quinsey’;"
• "He that had deserved strangling was either drowned in some river, or choked by a squinancy [angina]. ""