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Consumptive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Destructive; wasting; exhausting; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; as a long consumptive war.

2. Affected with a consumption or pumonic disease, as consumptive lungs; or inclined to a consumption; tending to the phthisis pulmonalis; applied to the incipient state of the disease, or to a constitution predisposed to it.

Consumptive [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.

Consumptive [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Consumptively [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a way tending to consumption.

Consumptively [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a way tending to or indication consumption.

Consumptiveness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.

Consumptiveness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.