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Ague is an archaic term for fever. The translation in Leviticus 26:16 (R.V., "fever") of the Hebrew word kaddah'ath, meaning "kindling", i.e., an inflammatory or burning fever. In Deut. 28:22 the word is rendered "fever."
It was also used in Old English as a word for malaria.
This entry incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897, with some modernization.
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