An archaic term for a complaint, ailment, or defect, particularly in old legal or medical texts.
From Old French achaque or Spanish achaque, possibly from Arabic origin. Used in medieval legal terminology to describe bodily ailments or defects.
Achaque was a legal term—if you wanted to return something as defective in medieval times, you had to formally declare its 'achaque,' so this word appears in countless old sales contracts as people negotiated over broken goods.
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