phthisic

American  

[tiz-ik, thiz-] / ˈtɪz ɪk, ˈθɪz- /

noun

1. a wasting disease of the lungs; phthisis.

2. asthma.

3. a person with phthisis.

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adjective

1. pertaining to phthisis; phthisical.

phthisic British  

/ ˈθaɪsɪk, ˈtaɪsɪk, ˈfθaɪsɪk /

adjective

1. relating to or affected with phthisis

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noun

1. another name for asthma

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

Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.

From Washington Post

Your doctors of physic May banish the phthisic.

From Project Gutenberg

Yes, there's considerable of ager and phthisic and bilious fever.

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After going down the line several times and a number of scholars had fallen on some simple word the school-master pronounced the word "phthisic."

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I do wish these reformers had come around sooner, when I was learning to spell phthisic, syzygy, daguerreotype, and caoutchouc.

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