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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONSUMPTION, n. [L. See Consume.]
1. The act of consuming; waste; destruction by burning, eating, devouring, scattering, dissipation, slow decay, or by passing away, as time; as the consumption of fuel, of food, of commodities or estate, of time, etc.
2. The state of being wasted, or diminished.
Etna and Vesuvius have not suffered any considerable diminution or consumption.
3. In medicine, a wasting of flesh; a gradual decay or diminution of the body; a word of extensive signification. But particularly, the disease called phthisis pulmonalis, pulmonic consumption, a disease seated in the lungs, attended with hectic fever, cough, etc.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) [syn: consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake]
2: involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body [syn: pulmonary tuberculosis, consumption, phthisis, wasting disease, white plague]
3: (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing; "the consumption of energy has increased steadily" [syn: consumption, economic consumption, usance, use, use of goods and services]
4: the act of consuming something [syn: consumption, using up, expenditure]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English consumpcioun, from Latin consumption-, consumptio, from consumere Date: 14th century 1. a. a progressive wasting away of the body especially from pulmonary tuberculosis b. tuberculosis 2. a. the act or process of consuming <consumption of food> <consumption of resources> b. use by or exposure to a particular group or audience <the document was not intended for public consumption> 3. the utilization of economic goods in the satisfaction of wants or in the process of production resulting chiefly in their destruction, deterioration, or transformation

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of consuming; the process of being consumed. 2 any disease causing wasting of tissues, esp. pulmonary tuberculosis. 3 an amount consumed. 4 the purchase and use of goods etc. Etymology: ME f. OF consomption f. L consumptio (as consume)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Consumption Con*sump"tion (?; 215), n. [L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.] 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction. Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. --Burke. 2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay. 3. (Med.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. The consumption of fuel or natural resources is the amount of them that is used or the act of using them. The laws have led to a reduction in fuel consumption in the US. ...a tax on the consumption of non-renewable energy resources. N-UNCOUNT: with supp 2. The consumption of food or drink is the act of eating or drinking something, or the amount that is eaten or drunk. (FORMAL) Most of the wine was unfit for human consumption... The average daily consumption of fruit and vegetables is around 200 grams... N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp 3. Consumption is the act of buying and using things. Recycling the waste from our increased consumption is better than burning it. 4. see also conspicuous consumption

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kon-sump'-shun (shachepheth, "wasting away"): One of the punishments which was to follow neglect or breach of the law. It may mean pulmonary consumption, which occurs frequently in Palestine; but from its association with fever in the texts, Le 26:16; De 28:22, it is more likely to be the much more common condition of wasting and emaciation from prolonged or often recurring attacks of malarial fever.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Extinction, destruction, waste, expenditure, use, using up. 2. Phthisis, marasmus, atrophy, decline, tabes, gradual wasting, progressive emaciation.

Moby Thesaurus

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