Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a consumptive manner; in a way characteristic of or tending to consumption.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a way tending to or indication consumption.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
consumptive manner.
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Examples
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At eighteen, he was alarmingly, consumptively skinny.
Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002
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He is not a speed reader but he reads consumptively.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1997
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Field efficiency is the ratio between the amount of water consumptively used by the crop and the amount applied at the outlet to the field.
Chapter 7 1995
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Jim's existence, keeping herself and her three children on hasty pudding, and buying for Jim's consumptively craving appetite rich mince-pies and platefuls of good rich food from an eating-house hard by.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 Various
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Senegalese and Turcos with rolling eyes and wreathed smiles sat at the tables in the Café de la Paix, paying extravagantly for their fire-water, and exalted by this luxury of life after the muddy hell of the trenches and the humid climate which made them cough consumptively between their gusts of laughter.
The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919
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The Agency's water sources include State Water Project SWP purchases, natural surface water flows, return flow from pumped groundwater not consumptively used and wastewater imports.
unknown title 2011
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They are steadily of opinion, that consumptions are occasioned by these fires, and that all the subjects of Great Britain are consumptively disposed, merely because those who are so, go into Italy for change of air: though
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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The ability to NON-consumptively use surface water in natural waterbodies is not governed by any riparian or prior appropriative water rights system.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Jack Bombardier 2010
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The ability to NON-consumptively use surface water in natural waterbodies is not governed by any riparian or prior appropriative water rights system.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Jack Bombardier 2010
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The ability to NON-consumptively use surface water in natural waterbodies is not governed by any riparian or prior appropriative water rights system.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Jack Bombardier 2010
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