AGONY, Agonis, the extremity of pain or a disease; when nature makes her last effort, or struggle, to throw off the evil that oppresses her. See PAIN, DISEASE, and DEATH. The Word is form’d from the Greek term, Certamen, Combat; this being a kind of Strife between Life and Death.
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