Consumptive

Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
  • (a.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
  • (n.) One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.

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