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Consumptive

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Con‐sump″tive (?), a. [Cf. F. consomptif.] 1. Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.

It is not consumptive or our time.

Sharp.

A long consumptive war.

Addison.

2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.

The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.

Dryden.