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noun

Consumptive n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.

adjective

Consumptive adj.

Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. "It (prayer) is not consumptive or our time." "A long consumptive war."

(Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. "The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed."

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Etymology of 'Consumptive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Consumptive" Quotes from Famous Books

... the broken nose sat up in bed, and the cobbler, roused from his feverish dream, lifted himself on his elbow and whispered: "It is the Redeemer. I knew Thou wouldst come." Then there was silence. Louise stood there with eyes fixed on her violin, playing her simple best. The consumptive raised his head and forgot to cough; the corporal slowly stiffened his body to attention; the commercial traveller folded his hands and stared before him. The simple tones of the hymn seemed to be giving ...

— The Great Hunger • Johan Bojer

... and the society of English friends; where they could consult a medical man, and get some hints how to treat the maladies of the Dyaks—for they expected all the missionaries to know the art of healing, having had more or less experience of the Bishop's skill. Mr. Hacket was consumptive, but Sarawak is the best climate in the world for that disease: he got much stronger with us, and might have lived many years there, but he was too nervous for so unsettled a country. We were often ...

— Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak • Harriette McDougall

... has told you," said Miss Shott, "that Edward Darley has ploughed up that little pasture of his and planted it with young apple trees. Now, it does seem to me that for a man like Edward Darley, who comes of a consumptive family, and who has been coughin' regularly, to my certain knowledge, for more than a year, to go and plant apple trees, which he can't expect to live to see bear fruit, is nothing more or less than a wicked waste of money, time, and labor. I suppose if I was to go and tell him so he would not like ...

— Mrs. Cliff's Yacht • Frank R. Stockton

... of colt's-foot and flax-seed, sweetened with honey, is a cure for inveterate coughs. Consumptions have been prevented by it. It should be drank when going to bed; though it does good to drink it at any time. Hoarhound is useful in consumptive complaints. ...

— The American Frugal Housewife • Lydia M. Child

... was pallid, but the hectic morn Had hung a lying crimson on his cheeks, And slanderous sparkles in his eyes forlorn; So death lies ambush'd in consumptive streaks; But inward grief was writhing o'er its task, As heart-sick jesters ...

— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

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