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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

pleuriticus

, Gr. [GREEK]: cf. F.

pleurétique

(Med.)

(a)

Of or pertaining to pleurisy;

as,

pleuritic

symptoms

(b)

Suffering from pleurisy.

pleuritical ‎(comparative more pleuritical, superlative most pleuritical)

Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with pleurisy.
- Bishop Joseph Hall
  One is sick of the pleuritical stitches of envy; one of the contracting cramp of covetousness; another of the atrophy of unproficiency.