CONSUMPTIVE

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

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.
a.

Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.

3.
n.

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

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