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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Consumptive \Con*sump"tive\, n.
One affected with consumption; as a resort for consumptives.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
consumptive
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}]
2: afflicted with or or associated with pulmonary tuberculosis;
"a consumptive patient"; "a consumptive cough"
n : a person with pulmonary tuberculosis [syn: {lunger}]
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