Consumptuous

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of consumptive.

    "There’s Standergras, Hares ballockes, or great Orchis, / Prouoketh Venus, and procureth ſport, / It helpes the weakned body that’s amiſſe, / And fals away in a conſumptuous ſort, / It heales the Hectique feauer by report: […]"

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consumptive

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"There’s Standergras, Hares ballockes, or great Orchis, / Prouoketh Venus, and procureth ſport, / It helpes the weakned body that’s amiſſe, / And fals away in a conſumptuous ſort, / It heales the Hectique feauer by report: […]"

Etymology

From Latin cōnsūmptus, past participle of cōnsūmō, + -uous.

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