Consumptive /(?)/
Con·sump·tive
Consumptive
a.
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Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time.
A long consumptive war.
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Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. (Med.)
The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
Consumptive
n.
- One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.