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Webster 1913 Edition
Consumptive
Con-sump′tive
,Adj.
[Cf. F.
consomptif
.] 1.
Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
It [prayer] is not
consumptive
or our time. Sharp.
A long
consumptive
war. Addison.
2.
(Med.)
Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
The lean,
consumptive
wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.
Con-sump′tive
,Noun.
One affected with consumption;
as, a resort for
. consumptives
Webster 1828 Edition
Consumptive
CONSUMPTIVE
,Adj.
1.
Destructive; wasting; exhausting; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; as a long consumptive war.2.
Affected with a consumption or pumonic disease, as consumptive lungs; or inclined to a consumption; tending to the phthisis pulmonalis; applied to the incipient state of the disease, or to a constitution predisposed to it.