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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
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 Edmund Gosse
Your doctors of physic May banish the phthisic.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 by Various
You have the phthisic, when I know you have climbed the Rigi and Montanvert, and half the mountains in Switzerland!
From Bessie's Fortune A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes
All sorts of diseases, Whatever you pleases, The phthisic, the palsy, and the gout; If the devil's in, I'll blow him out.
From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Ernest Rhys
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