adjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- phthisical adjective
Etymology
Origin of phthisic
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English tisik(e), ptisik(e), from Old French tisique, thesique “consumptive,” from Medieval Latin ptisicus, tisicus, from Latin phthisicus “consumptive; a consumptive” (adejctive and noun), from Greek phthisikós “consumptive” (adjective); phthisis, -ic
Example Sentences
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Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015
He corned for us ten minutes behind the town clock, and Mammy Dilsie had phthisic, so I had to fix the two twins, and we're done left.
From The Tinder-Box by Daviess, Maria Thompson
Them was our brag-words, phthisic and asthma was.
From Sonny, a Christmas Guest by Stuart, Ruth McEnery
I suppose, poor half-starved phthisic lad, that he was the most miserable of us all.
From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund
She put it on her knee, and played a tune that would have made gout, cholic and phthisic dance upon their last legs.
From Peg Woffington by Reade, Charles
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