Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
rheumatic .
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Examples
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There it was, broke as ye see and a-lying in the way, underfoot, ready to trip up poor old Ben Fadger, and his legs already as rheumatical stiff as two dry toasts….
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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There it was, broke as ye see and a-lying in the way, underfoot, ready to trip up poor old Ben Fadger, and his legs already as rheumatical stiff as two dry toasts….
Wicked Will Bailey MacDonald 2009
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The day after a party is certain to be a sloppy day; and as the street-door is constantly being opened and shut, a raw, rheumatical wind is ever in active operation.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, Various
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Filomena had lost her voice and Sir Hercules was grown too rheumatical to play the violin.
Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928
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The Lady Filomena had lost her voice and Sir Hercules was grown too rheumatical to play the violin.
Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921
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