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Consumptive definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CONSUMPTIVE, a.
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.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: tending to consume or use often wastefully; "water suitable for beneficial consumptive uses"; "duties consumptive of time and energy"; "consumptive fires" [ant: generative, productive]
2: afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; "a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough" n
1: a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: consumptive, lunger, tubercular]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 1647 1. tending to consume 2. of, relating to, or affected with consumption • consumptively adverb II. noun Date: 1666 a person affected with consumption

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 of or tending to consumption. 2 tending to or affected with pulmonary tuberculosis. --n. a consumptive patient. Derivatives: consumptively adv. Etymology: med.L consumptivus (as consumption)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Consumptive Con*sump"tive, a. [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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Consumptive Con*sump"tive, n. One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A consumptive person suffers from tuberculosis. (OLD-FASHIONED) ADJ: usu ADJ n

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