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Definition of Consumptive

1. Adjective. Tending to consume or use often wastefully. "Consumptive fires"

2. Noun. A person with pulmonary tuberculosis.

3. Adjective. Afflicted with or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis. "A consumptive cough"

Definition of Consumptive

1. a. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.

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

Definition of Consumptive

1. Adjective. Having a tendency to consume. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, or relating to consumption. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: pathology) Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis. ¹

4. Noun. A person suffering of pulmonary tuberculosis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Consumptive

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Medical Definition of Consumptive

1. Relating to, or suffering from, consumption. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consumptive

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Literary usage of Consumptive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Financial Organization of Society by Harold Glenn Moulton (1921)
"CHAPTER XXVIII consumptive CREDIT INSTITUTIONS From the point of view of the uses to which borrowed funds are devoted, credit was classified in chapter vii ..."

2. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1900)
"Since this was written, I have ascertained that the Jewish Hospital of Philadelphia has set apart ten free beds for consumptive patients. ..."

3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1902)
"WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE consumptive POOR ? BY SA KNOPF, MD, NEW YORK. In an audience of charity workers, largely composed of laymen, it goes without ..."

4. The London Medical Gazette (1850)
"But the best place for the consumptive we know, and now within the reach of the ... Madras, too, is a good climate for the consumptive, and Bangalore ..."

5. Forty years in the wilderness of pills and powders, or, The cogitations and by William Andrus Alcott (1859)
"THE consumptive PAIR. A YOUNG man, recently married, called on me one day, ... consumptive people are generally sensual, while indulgence is peculiarly ..."

6. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1908)
"The Unteachable consumptive. The careful consumptive, who is informed in regard to the means of distributing the disease, is not a dangerous person to live ..."

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