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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); see origin at 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
What you are about I cannot guess, even from your date;—not dauncing to the sound of the gitourney in the Halls of the Lowthers? one of whom is here, ill, poor thing, with a phthisic.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
What you are about, I cannot guess, even from your date;—not dauncing to the sound of the gitourney in the Halls of the Lowthers? one of whom is here, ill, poor thing, with a phthisic.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
Them was our brag-words, phthisic and asthma was.
From Sonny, a Christmas Guest by Ruth McEnery Stuart
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 Charles Reade
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