单词 | consumptively |
释义 | > as lemmasconˈsumptively conˈsumptively adv. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adverb] piningly1561 tabidlya1682 consumptively1697 tubercularly1834 wastingly1834 1697 T. Nevett Treat. Consumpt. 61 My advice to the consumptive or consumptively inclined. 1749 W. R. Chetwood Gen. Hist. Stage 179 A Comedy call'd Kensington-Gardens, acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields in the Year 1720, which walk'd consumptively six Nights, and then expir'd. 1875 Daily Republican (Decatur, Illinois) 30 Mar. Present her with a life insurance policy for five thousand dollars, and then cough at her consumptively. 2006 Sydney Morning Herald 20 Feb. 3 Pink cupcakes were plentiful but the stars at the centre of the frenzy were consumptively thin. < as lemmas |
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