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Definition of Rheumatically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rheumatically
Literary usage of Rheumatically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... shape of a catechismi that must disarm all further opposition : — A.— A sort
of ecclesiastical overcoat, to be worn by rheumatically-disposed ministers. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"was rheumatically climbing up on the box. Then he flicked his Roman-nosed roan
as it lumbered over to Peplow House. The flyman had put on his best coat for ..."
3. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"... and on the cracked and smoke-blackened parapet beyond, some of the deluded
sparrows of the place rheumatically hopped, like little feathered cripples ..."
4. The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904: A Story of the Great Exploration by Olin Dunbar Wheeler (1904)
"... and one of their patients was, as previously mentioned, a man with a rheumatically
crippled knee. The extreme longevity of this woman is by no means ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1898)
"... one groans rheumatically. Miss Mary is playing soft chords, with the winter
sunshine coming through one of the high windows and touching her plain ..."
6. The Crest of the Continent: A Record of a Summer's Ramble in the Rocky by Ernest Ingersoll (1885)
"How our first boy fought and bled and died I wrote you before, and that the last
I saw of him he was being bundled rheumatically aboard the homeward train. ..."
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