a. Obs. [a. Fr. agonieux (cf. It. agonioso): see AGONY and -OUS.] Full of agony.
1494. Fabyan, VI. clxi. 154. Lewys had long lyen in this agonyous sykenes.
1683. Tryon, Way to Health, 575. The harsh astringent fierce original Poysons do … put Nature into an agonious Condition.
