Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
catarrhal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Catarrhal.
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- adjective
catarrhal
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Examples
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The air is counted salutary in catarrhous consumptions, from its dryness and elasticity: but too sharp in cases of pulmonary imposthumes.
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Having given us eight pages of rather cheap sermonising about the poetry of youth not lasting; having requested us to imagine Manon and Des Grieux "decrepit and catarrhous,"
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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He had, before that, been troubled with a catarrhous cough.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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I am now harrassed by a catarrhous cough, from which my purpose is to seek relief by change of air; and I am, therefore, preparing to go to Oxford [475].
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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But when these new motions of the vascular muscles are exerted with greater violence, and these vessels are either elongated too much or too hastily, a new material is secreted from their extremities, which is of various kinds according to the peculiar animal motions of this new kind of gland, which secretes it; such is the pus laudabile or common matter, the variolous matter, venereal matter, catarrhous matter, and many others.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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