Definition of "phthisical" []

• Phthisic (adjective)

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• "Cecilia, who had no difficulty in knowing this pretended schoolmaster for Mr Gosport, was readily beginning to propose conditions for according him her favour, when their ears were assailed by a forced phthisical cough, which they found proceeded from an apparent old woman, who was a young man in disguise, and whose hobbling gait, grunting voice, and most grievous asthmatic complaints, seemed greatly enjoyed and applauded by the company."
• "Victorius gives a serious account of a consumptive, hectical, phthisical woman, who was suddenly cured by the intercession of"
• "We must be guarded in purging phthisical persons upward."