phthisic

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  1. noun Variant of phthisis.
  2. noun Archaic Any illness of the lungs or throat, such as asthma or a cough.

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  • All sorts of diseases, Whatever you pleases, The phthisic, the palsy, and the gout; If the devil's in, I'll blow him out Father Christmas. —  "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
  • "_You have the phthisic, when I know you have climbed the Rigi and Montanvert, and half the mountains in Switzerland! —  Bessie's Fortune A Novel
  • "Sallie, didn't you ask me to take that Pup from Aunt Dilsie, 'cause of the phthisic, and keep her quiet while the Kit got a nap, and didn't I ask you if it would be all right if I got her back whole and clean Yes, Henrietta, but you Ain't she whole all over and clean Yes, but Couldn't nobody do any better than that with one of them twins. —  The Tinder-Box
  • Phth, in the word phthisic 123. —  1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading
  • The very names by which they call diseases sweeten and mollify the sharpness of them: the phthisic is with them no more than a cough, dysentery but a looseness, the pleurisy but a stitch; and, as they gently name them, so they patiently endure them; they are very great and grievous indeed when they hinder their ordinary labour; they never keep their beds but to die Simplex illa et aperta virtus in obscuram et solertem scientiam versa est That overt and simple virtue is converted into an obscure and subtle science." —  The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
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  1. Middle English ptisike, from Old French ptisique, from phthisicus, consumptive, from Greek phthisikos, from phthisis, wasting away, consumption; see phthisis.

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  1. I. a. (and II. n., 2). Formerly also phthisick, ptisike; = Old French tisique, tesike, French phthisique, now phtisique = Spanish tisico = Portuguese tisico = Italian tisico, ftisico, from Latin phthisicus, Middle Latin ptisicus, tisicus, from Greek φθισικός, consumptive, from φθίσις, consumption: see phthisis. II. n. 1. Formerly also phthisick, tisick, tissick, tizzick, tysyke, tizic; from Middle English tisike, from Old French tisique, French phti sique = Spanish tisica = Portuguese tisica, phthisica = Italian tisica, consumption, from Latin phthisica, feminine of phthisicus, from Greek φθισικός, consumptive: see I.
 

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