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.
c. 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.
