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asthmatic, a. and n.|æsθˈmætɪk|
Also 6 asmatycke, -icke, asthmatyke, -ique, -icke, 7–8 -ick.
[ad. L. asthmaticus, a. Gr. ἀσθµατικός: see asthma and -ic.]
A. adj.
1. Affected with or suffering from asthma.
1542Boorde Dyetary xxxv. (1870) 296 A dyete for..asthmatyke men. 1582J. Hester Phiorav. Secr. iii. cxi. 135 Giuen in the broth of a Chickin vnto those that are Asmaticke. 1775H. Walpole Last Jrnls. 14 Mar., Asthmatic and unhealthy like her father. 1861Wynter Soc. Bees 459 An asthmatic patient.
2. a. Of or pertaining to asthma.
1620Venner Via Recta iii. 61 The Asthmatick passion..is a short and painfull fetching of breath. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxiv. 328 Interrupted by a fit of asthmatic coughing.
b. Good against asthma.
1880M. Collins Th. in Gard. I. 53 An asthmatic balsam that is ‘truly efficacious and pleasant.’
3. fig. Puffing, wheezy.
1806J. Beresford Miseries I. x. 242 An asthmatic pair of bellows. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. cxi, The asthmatic old steam-tug.
B. n. A person suffering from asthma.
1610P. Barrough Physick ii. vii. (1639) 82 You must give unto the Asthmaticks..Antidotes. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cur. Dis. iii. vii. 891 Why should the close air of a crowded room be balmiest of airs to some asthmatics? |