phthisicn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈ(f)θɪzɪk/,

/ˈtɪzɪk/, U.S.

/ˈθɪzɪk/,

/ˈtɪzɪk/

Forms:

α. Middle English tesik, Middle English tesike, Middle English tesyke, Middle English tisyk, Middle English tyseke (in a late copy), Middle English tysik, Middle English tysyk, Middle English–1500s tisik, Middle English–1500s tisike, Middle English–1500s tyssyke, Middle English–1600s tysyke, 1500s teseke, 1500s tisicke, 1500s tissike, 1500s tysike, 1500s tysyc, 1500s–1600s tisick, 1600s thisicke, 1600s tissicke, 1600s tissique, 1600s tizzick, 1600s tysick, 1600s tysicke, 1600s tyssick, 1600s–1700s tissick, 1800s tizick (Irish English); English regional 1800s– tisick, 1800s– tisik, 1800s– tissick, 1800s– tissuck, 1800s– tizzick, 1800s– tizzik, 1800s– tussick (East Anglian), 1800s– tyzick, 1900s– tissic, 1900s– tizick; Scottish pre-1700 teasicke, pre-1700 tisic, pre-1700 tisicke.

β. Middle English tphisike.

γ. late Middle English pthisic, late Middle English ptisic, late Middle English ptysyk, late Middle English 1600s ptisike, 1500s ptisique, 1500s–1600s ptisicke, 1500s–1600s ptysyke, 1500s–1700s pthisick, 1500s–1800s ptisick, 1600s pthisick, 1600s pthisicke, 1600s pthisique, 1600s pthysic, 1600s pthysick, 1600s ptissick, 1600s ptissicke, 1600s ptysick, 1700s ptysic.

δ. 1500s phthisik, 1500s phthisike, 1500s–1600s phthisicke, 1500s–1700s phthisick, 1600s phthysick, 1600s phthysique, 1600s phtisic, 1600s phtisick, 1600s phtisicke, 1600s phtisique, 1600s–1700s phthysick, 1700s–1800s phthysic, 1700s– phthisic; Scottish pre-1700 phtiseik, pre-1700 phtisike, pre-1700 phtisique, 1800s– phthisic.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French tisik, tysike, tisique, ptisique; Latin phthisicus.

Etymology: As noun partly < Anglo-Norman tysike and Old French tisique, Old French, Middle French thisique, Middle French tysique, Middle French, French†phtisique, †ptisique, French †phtisique, †phthisique, †ptisique (feminine) phthisis (1st half of 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman; now superseded by French phthisie ), use as noun of feminine of phtisique , adjective (see below), and partly < Anglo-Norman tisik, tysic (mid 12th cent.) and Middle French ptisique (a1365; French phtisique (1835)) (masculine or feminine) person suffering from phthisis, and its etymon classical Latin phthisicus, use as noun of masculine of phthisicus , adjective (see below). As adjective < Middle French tisique, thisique, tesicque, ptisique, French phtisique, phthisique affected by phthisis, related to phthisis (c1210 in Old French as tisique ) and its etymon classical Latin phthisicus (also pthisicus, tisicus) consumptive < ancient Greek ϕθισικός consumptive < ϕθίσις phthisis n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Catalan tísica phthisis (1507), Spanish tísica phthisis (1250), Italian tisica phthisis (a1308 or earlier), Middle Dutch tisike phthisis (14th cent.); compare also Old Occitan tezic, tesic (adjective and noun) (person) affected by phthisis (a1300), Catalan tísic (adjective and noun) (person) affected by phthisis (early 15th cent.), Spanish tísico (adjective and noun) (person) affected by phthisis (a1300; also as †ptisico), Italian tisico (adjective and noun) (person) affected by phthisis (14th cent.; also as noun in 14th cent. in sense ‘phthisis’). N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (ti·zik) /ˈtɪzɪk/; this was usual down to the early 20th cent. Pronunciations with initial /θ/ or /fθ/, long i, or /s/ are recorded during the 20th cent.

A. n.

†a. = phthisis n. 1a. Obsolete.Frequently not clearly distinguishable from sense A. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun]

phthisic1301

chestiness1909

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > consumption

phthisic1301

consumptiona1398

phthisis1525

studious consumption1666

consumptiveness1677

colliquitation1720

decay1725

wearing1824

consumptivity1889

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > relating to consumption

consumptive1588

phthisical1611

phthisic1694

phthinoid1870

phthisiogenetic1904

α.

1301 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Coroners Rolls London (1913) 16 (MED) [Roger..left the kitchen..complaining of a disorder called] Tisik.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 241 Þe pyneapul curnelles..helpeth hem þat haue þe tysyke and beþ consumpt.

a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 701 Many yvels..Als fevyr, dropsy, and Iaunys, Tysyk, goute, and other maladys.

a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 708 Tisis, the tyssyke.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Biii^v Can you a remedy for a tysyke.

1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. F iv^v It is also good for the tysyc.

a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 321 The teasicke, the toothaike, the tittes and the tirles.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 693 The milke of a Sow..is also good against the blody flix and Tissick.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 41 Hectick Feavers and Tissicks.

1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 44 But count all Reprobate..Whom he, when Gout, or Tissick Rage, shall curse.

1705 J. Dunton Life & Errors iv. 311 He was seiz'd with his Old Distemper, the Tissick &c. which ended his Life in a few Days.

β. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xx. 1291 Tphisike..beþ cause of wan coloure [of urine].γ. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.:Wallner) iii. 139 (MED) When..it makeþ for to falle in-to pthisic, þan is necessarie a cauterie to be made.a1475 tr. Gilbertus Anglicus Pharmaceutical Writings (Wellcome) (1991) 111 (MED) Diapenidion is good for..þe coughe and for hoosnes..and for þe ptisike.1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bathes Ayde Pref. 2 Some with Ptisique, Stone, Strangurie [etc.].1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 363 Plantaine h[elpeth] the ptysick, agues, heat, luxations, and kills wormes.1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ xiii. 255 The North-wind..is injurious to the Cough, Pthisick, and Gout.1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. iv. 121 Being troubled with a ptysic, he retired to Marybone.1819 Ld. Byron Let. 1 Aug. (1976) VI. 195 She..was obliged to return with that ‘becco Ettico’ (consumptive cuckold), as she called the poor man who had a Ptisick.δ. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 58 The Phthisick or sore in the Lunges with a Consumption of all the bodie.1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 585 Phthisicks, and consumptions of the lungs or dropsies.1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 61 The vertues of Tobacco are these,..the Syrup for many diseases, the smoak for the Phthisick.1694 Philos. Trans. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 1002 Of the various Kinds and Causes of the Phthisick.1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 367 A variety of pulmonic phthisics.1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 56 199 If he left off without having thrown himself into a phthisic.

b. Coughing or wheezing; any of various diseases characterized by this, esp. asthma or bronchitis. Also: a tickling cough; a fit of coughing or wheezing. Now regional or archaic.

ΚΠ

α.

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 315 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 497 (MED) Drye tisyk is withal partable [read portable].

c1460 (?c1435) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 667 (MED) A drye tisyk makith oold men ful feynt.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 287 Herode..was vexede with a soore fever, grete ycchenge, with swellenge of his feete..and with a violente tisike [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. kouȝhe; L. tussi].

1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. iii. 104 A whorson tisick, a whorson rascally tisick, so troubles me.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 8 When liberty of speaking..was girded, and straight lac't almost to a broken-winded tizzick.

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxiii. 110 Excrementitious humours, such as are expectorated by a Cough after a Cold, or in an Asthma (Ptisick) Peripneumonia, or Pleurisie, are very apt to putrefie and corrupt in the Lungs.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Tissick,..a tickling faint cough; called also a ‘tissicky cough’.

1892 Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. 63/2 Poor Tom tuk the tizick that night in the cell.

1953 S. Grapes Boy John Lett. (1974) 64 Tha's funny how, ginerally every Friday nite arter Xmas, Granfar allus hev a tissic on his chest—till that rum is orl gone.

γ. 1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xii. 9 Then fell a Laughing at his Jest, till he brought himself into a Fit of the Phthisick.a1741 T. Chalkley Wks. (1766) 286 A sore Fit of the Asthma or Phthysick.1856 G. D. Brewerton War in Kansas xxxiii. 325 It aggravated his phthisic powerfully to stop out after night.1874 Amer. Cycl. VI. 587/2 Doubtless many cases of so-called hereditary phthisic or asthma are due to the vesicular dilatation consequent on spasmodic bronchial contractions.1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 288/2 That boy of ours..almost dies every night of the phthisic, so that my wife or myself have to hold him up in bed to keep him from choking to death.

2. A person suffering from phthisis. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > consumption > person

phthisica1398

phthisical1618

hectica1657

consumptive1666

pulmonic1733

phthinode1870

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. cviii. 1256 Here fleissh..haþ vertu to restore..tisikes.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 159 (MED) Þu shalt nouȝt lede ptisicz, i. þam þat haþ þe ptisik, to þe vpper purgacionz.

1763 A. Sutherland Attempts Antient Med. Doctr. II. iv. 141 He cautions phthisics never to fatigue themselves by it [sc. riding].

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII lxxii. 41 That labyrinth, whose clue is of the same Construction as your cures for hectic phthisics, Those bright moths fluttering round a dying flame.

1913 Lancet 5 Apr. 985/1 They do not seem to support his conclusions (1) both male and female phthisics transmit a tendency to the disease.

1929 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 85 549 The habit of young phthisics from the middle of the last century onwards, and continuing right up to the war, was to leave London.

1956 Lancet 1 Sept. 451/2 A predominance of male deaths in elderly phthisics has been a feature of London tuberculosis mortality for many years.

B. adj.

a. Suffering from or characteristic of phthisis or phthisic. Also: predisposed to phthisis. Now chiefly literary or historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > relating to consumption > affected by

consumpta1398

phthisica1398

consumed?a1425

consumptuous1601

consumptive1648

phthisical1651

consumptionary1653

consumptionish1655

consumptionous1655

consumptional1662

consummate1684

phthisicky1697

pulmonary1712

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 48 Tisik men alwey coghe for þe bocche of þe longen.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 140 A toþe moued and febled..in olde men & ptisic [?c1425 Paris ptisike] men is not cured.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 128^v (MED) Tysike..tisicus, -a, -um, qui patitur illam infirmitatem.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke ii. xii. 71 You must ascribe to those that be ptisicke a conuenient diet.

1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Hogges (1627) 263 They wil haue the disease of the lights, which is, to bee pursie and ptisicke.

1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 280 In Hectick, Phthisick, and Asthmatick cases.

1798 Phthisiologia 41 To breathe the ill, that morbid frame retails, Whose health beneath the Phthisic lungs quick fails.

1920 T. S. Eliot Ara Vos Prec 15 Princess Volupine extends A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand to climb the waterstair.

1946 A. Huxley Perennial Philos. viii. 169 There are the primarily medical classifications associated with the name of Hippocrates, classifications in terms of two main ‘habits’—the phthisic and the apoplectic—or of the four humours.

1955 M. L. Starkey Little Rebellion iv. 44 Hancock was gouty, and only intermittently so; Bowdoin was phthisic.

1973 D. K. Mathews Measurem. in Physical Educ. (ed. 4) ix. 279 Hippocrates classified the human physique into two fundamental types: phthisic habitus, characterized by a long, thin body with emphasis placed on the vertical dimension; and the apoplectic habitus, characterized by short, thick body emphasizing the horizontal dimension.

1989 S. Sucharitkul Moon Dance i. viii. 127 His voice, when he spoke, was a phthisic wheeze.

1996 L. Hutcheon & M. Hutcheon Opera ii. 38 The erotic appeal of what was called ‘phthisic beauty’..: extreme thinness, long neck and hands, shining eyes, pale skin, and red cheeks.

b. In extended use and figurative.

ΚΠ

1814 Ld. Byron Let. 10 Apr. (1967) 257 This mistress of his..is plaguing him into a phthisic and intolerable tediousness.

1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 372 His colleague's accordion is suspended in the midst of a phthisic wheeze.

1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 239 The car emitted a deep, phthisic cough.

1988 C. McWilliam Case of Knives (1989) xxiv. 197 Tubbed outside, only camellias thrive in the phthisic air.

2. Ophthalmology. = phthisical adj. 2.

ΚΠ

1971 Birth Defects Orig. Article Ser. 7 117 Norrie's disease is an X-linked disease presenting bilateral blindness at birth or during the first few months of life... Later the eyes usually become phthisic.

1985 Ann. Ophthalmol. 17 720/2 Two attempts to repair this [sc. a retinal detachment]..were unsuccessful, and the eye became phthisic.

1997 Jrnl. AAPOS 1 41 One of these eyes is phthisic and one has been enucleated.

Derivatives

† phthisicness n. (in form tisiknesse) Obsolete rare phthisic or asthmatic quality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [noun] > shortness of breath > asthma

asthmaa1398

pirrea1398

stifle1398

phthisicness1539

asthmasy1599

status asthmaticus1892

1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iv. vi. f. 82 Tisiknesse or shortnesse of breth.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	phthisic
释义	phthisicn.adj. Brit. /ˈ(f)θɪzɪk/, /ˈtɪzɪk/, U.S. /ˈθɪzɪk/, /ˈtɪzɪk/ Forms: α. Middle English tesik, Middle English tesike, Middle English tesyke, Middle English tisyk, Middle English tyseke (in a late copy), Middle English tysik, Middle English tysyk, Middle English–1500s tisik, Middle English–1500s tisike, Middle English–1500s tyssyke, Middle English–1600s tysyke, 1500s teseke, 1500s tisicke, 1500s tissike, 1500s tysike, 1500s tysyc, 1500s–1600s tisick, 1600s thisicke, 1600s tissicke, 1600s tissique, 1600s tizzick, 1600s tysick, 1600s tysicke, 1600s tyssick, 1600s–1700s tissick, 1800s tizick (Irish English); English regional 1800s– tisick, 1800s– tisik, 1800s– tissick, 1800s– tissuck, 1800s– tizzick, 1800s– tizzik, 1800s– tussick (East Anglian), 1800s– tyzick, 1900s– tissic, 1900s– tizick; Scottish pre-1700 teasicke, pre-1700 tisic, pre-1700 tisicke. β. Middle English tphisike. γ. late Middle English pthisic, late Middle English ptisic, late Middle English ptysyk, late Middle English 1600s ptisike, 1500s ptisique, 1500s–1600s ptisicke, 1500s–1600s ptysyke, 1500s–1700s pthisick, 1500s–1800s ptisick, 1600s pthisick, 1600s pthisicke, 1600s pthisique, 1600s pthysic, 1600s pthysick, 1600s ptissick, 1600s ptissicke, 1600s ptysick, 1700s ptysic. δ. 1500s phthisik, 1500s phthisike, 1500s–1600s phthisicke, 1500s–1700s phthisick, 1600s phthysick, 1600s phthysique, 1600s phtisic, 1600s phtisick, 1600s phtisicke, 1600s phtisique, 1600s–1700s phthysick, 1700s–1800s phthysic, 1700s– phthisic; Scottish pre-1700 phtiseik, pre-1700 phtisike, pre-1700 phtisique, 1800s– phthisic. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French tisik, tysike, tisique, ptisique; Latin phthisicus. Etymology: As noun partly < Anglo-Norman tysike and Old French tisique, Old French, Middle French thisique, Middle French tysique, Middle French, French†phtisique, †ptisique, French †phtisique, †phthisique, †ptisique (feminine) phthisis (1st half of 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman; now superseded by French phthisie ), use as noun of feminine of phtisique , adjective (see below), and partly < Anglo-Norman tisik, tysic (mid 12th cent.) and Middle French ptisique (a1365; French phtisique (1835)) (masculine or feminine) person suffering from phthisis, and its etymon classical Latin phthisicus, use as noun of masculine of phthisicus , adjective (see below). As adjective < Middle French tisique, thisique, tesicque, ptisique, French phtisique, phthisique affected by phthisis, related to phthisis (c1210 in Old French as tisique ) and its etymon classical Latin phthisicus (also pthisicus, tisicus) consumptive < ancient Greek ϕθισικός consumptive < ϕθίσις phthisis n. + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare Catalan tísica phthisis (1507), Spanish tísica phthisis (1250), Italian tisica phthisis (a1308 or earlier), Middle Dutch tisike phthisis (14th cent.); compare also Old Occitan tezic, tesic (adjective and noun) (person) affected by phthisis (a1300), Catalan tísic (adjective and noun) (person) affected by phthisis (early 15th cent.), Spanish tísico (adjective and noun) (person) affected by phthisis (a1300; also as †ptisico), Italian tisico (adjective and noun) (person) affected by phthisis (14th cent.; also as noun in 14th cent. in sense ‘phthisis’). N.E.D. (1906) gives only the pronunciation (ti·zik) /ˈtɪzɪk/; this was usual down to the early 20th cent. Pronunciations with initial /θ/ or /fθ/, long i, or /s/ are recorded during the 20th cent. A. n. 1. †a. = phthisis n. 1a. Obsolete.Frequently not clearly distinguishable from sense A. 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] phthisic1301 chestiness1909 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > consumption phthisic1301 consumptiona1398 phthisis1525 studious consumption1666 consumptiveness1677 colliquitation1720 decay1725 wearing1824 consumptivity1889 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > relating to consumption consumptive1588 phthisical1611 phthisic1694 phthinoid1870 phthisiogenetic1904 α. 1301 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Coroners Rolls London (1913) 16 (MED) [Roger..left the kitchen..complaining of a disorder called] Tisik. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 241 Þe pyneapul curnelles..helpeth hem þat haue þe tysyke and beþ consumpt. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 701 Many yvels..Als fevyr, dropsy, and Iaunys, Tysyk, goute, and other maladys. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 708 Tisis, the tyssyke. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Biii^v Can you a remedy for a tysyke. 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. F iv^v It is also good for the tysyc. a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 321 The teasicke, the toothaike, the tittes and the tirles. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 693 The milke of a Sow..is also good against the blody flix and Tissick. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso 41 Hectick Feavers and Tissicks. 1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 44 But count all Reprobate..Whom he, when Gout, or Tissick Rage, shall curse. 1705 J. Dunton Life & Errors iv. 311 He was seiz'd with his Old Distemper, the Tissick &c. which ended his Life in a few Days. β. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. xx. 1291 Tphisike..beþ cause of wan coloure [of urine].γ. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.:Wallner) iii. 139 (MED) When..it makeþ for to falle in-to pthisic, þan is necessarie a cauterie to be made.a1475 tr. Gilbertus Anglicus Pharmaceutical Writings (Wellcome) (1991) 111 (MED) Diapenidion is good for..þe coughe and for hoosnes..and for þe ptisike.1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bathes Ayde Pref. 2 Some with Ptisique, Stone, Strangurie [etc.].1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 363 Plantaine h[elpeth] the ptysick, agues, heat, luxations, and kills wormes.1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ xiii. 255 The North-wind..is injurious to the Cough, Pthisick, and Gout.1763 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting III. iv. 121 Being troubled with a ptysic, he retired to Marybone.1819 Ld. Byron Let. 1 Aug. (1976) VI. 195 She..was obliged to return with that ‘becco Ettico’ (consumptive cuckold), as she called the poor man who had a Ptisick.δ. 1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health ii. f. 58 The Phthisick or sore in the Lunges with a Consumption of all the bodie.1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 585 Phthisicks, and consumptions of the lungs or dropsies.1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 61 The vertues of Tobacco are these,..the Syrup for many diseases, the smoak for the Phthisick.1694 Philos. Trans. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 1002 Of the various Kinds and Causes of the Phthisick.1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 367 A variety of pulmonic phthisics.1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 56 199 If he left off without having thrown himself into a phthisic. b. Coughing or wheezing; any of various diseases characterized by this, esp. asthma or bronchitis. Also: a tickling cough; a fit of coughing or wheezing. Now regional or archaic. ΚΠ α. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 315 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 497 (MED) Drye tisyk is withal partable [read portable]. c1460 (?c1435) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1934) ii. 667 (MED) A drye tisyk makith oold men ful feynt. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 287 Herode..was vexede with a soore fever, grete ycchenge, with swellenge of his feete..and with a violente tisike [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. kouȝhe; L. tussi]. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. iii. 104 A whorson tisick, a whorson rascally tisick, so troubles me. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 8 When liberty of speaking..was girded, and straight lac't almost to a broken-winded tizzick. 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxiii. 110 Excrementitious humours, such as are expectorated by a Cough after a Cold, or in an Asthma (Ptisick) Peripneumonia, or Pleurisie, are very apt to putrefie and corrupt in the Lungs. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Tissick,..a tickling faint cough; called also a ‘tissicky cough’. 1892 Jrnl. Cork Hist. & Archaeol. Soc. 63/2 Poor Tom tuk the tizick that night in the cell. 1953 S. Grapes Boy John Lett. (1974) 64 Tha's funny how, ginerally every Friday nite arter Xmas, Granfar allus hev a tissic on his chest—till that rum is orl gone. γ. 1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xii. 9 Then fell a Laughing at his Jest, till he brought himself into a Fit of the Phthisick.a1741 T. Chalkley Wks. (1766) 286 A sore Fit of the Asthma or Phthysick.1856 G. D. Brewerton War in Kansas xxxiii. 325 It aggravated his phthisic powerfully to stop out after night.1874 Amer. Cycl. VI. 587/2 Doubtless many cases of so-called hereditary phthisic or asthma are due to the vesicular dilatation consequent on spasmodic bronchial contractions.1924 Amer. Mercury Nov. 288/2 That boy of ours..almost dies every night of the phthisic, so that my wife or myself have to hold him up in bed to keep him from choking to death. 2. A person suffering from phthisis. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > consumption > person phthisica1398 phthisical1618 hectica1657 consumptive1666 pulmonic1733 phthinode1870 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. cviii. 1256 Here fleissh..haþ vertu to restore..tisikes. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 159 (MED) Þu shalt nouȝt lede ptisicz, i. þam þat haþ þe ptisik, to þe vpper purgacionz. 1763 A. Sutherland Attempts Antient Med. Doctr. II. iv. 141 He cautions phthisics never to fatigue themselves by it [sc. riding]. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XII lxxii. 41 That labyrinth, whose clue is of the same Construction as your cures for hectic phthisics, Those bright moths fluttering round a dying flame. 1913 Lancet 5 Apr. 985/1 They do not seem to support his conclusions (1) both male and female phthisics transmit a tendency to the disease. 1929 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 85 549 The habit of young phthisics from the middle of the last century onwards, and continuing right up to the war, was to leave London. 1956 Lancet 1 Sept. 451/2 A predominance of male deaths in elderly phthisics has been a feature of London tuberculosis mortality for many years. B. adj. 1. a. Suffering from or characteristic of phthisis or phthisic. Also: predisposed to phthisis. Now chiefly literary or historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > relating to consumption > affected by consumpta1398 phthisica1398 consumed?a1425 consumptuous1601 consumptive1648 phthisical1651 consumptionary1653 consumptionish1655 consumptionous1655 consumptional1662 consummate1684 phthisicky1697 pulmonary1712 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 48 Tisik men alwey coghe for þe bocche of þe longen. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 140 A toþe moued and febled..in olde men & ptisic [?c1425 Paris ptisike] men is not cured. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 128^v (MED) Tysike..tisicus, -a, -um, qui patitur illam infirmitatem. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke ii. xii. 71 You must ascribe to those that be ptisicke a conuenient diet. 1587 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Hogges (1627) 263 They wil haue the disease of the lights, which is, to bee pursie and ptisicke. 1694 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 18 280 In Hectick, Phthisick, and Asthmatick cases. 1798 Phthisiologia 41 To breathe the ill, that morbid frame retails, Whose health beneath the Phthisic lungs quick fails. 1920 T. S. Eliot Ara Vos Prec 15 Princess Volupine extends A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand to climb the waterstair. 1946 A. Huxley Perennial Philos. viii. 169 There are the primarily medical classifications associated with the name of Hippocrates, classifications in terms of two main ‘habits’—the phthisic and the apoplectic—or of the four humours. 1955 M. L. Starkey Little Rebellion iv. 44 Hancock was gouty, and only intermittently so; Bowdoin was phthisic. 1973 D. K. Mathews Measurem. in Physical Educ. (ed. 4) ix. 279 Hippocrates classified the human physique into two fundamental types: phthisic habitus, characterized by a long, thin body with emphasis placed on the vertical dimension; and the apoplectic habitus, characterized by short, thick body emphasizing the horizontal dimension. 1989 S. Sucharitkul Moon Dance i. viii. 127 His voice, when he spoke, was a phthisic wheeze. 1996 L. Hutcheon & M. Hutcheon Opera ii. 38 The erotic appeal of what was called ‘phthisic beauty’..: extreme thinness, long neck and hands, shining eyes, pale skin, and red cheeks. b. In extended use and figurative. ΚΠ 1814 Ld. Byron Let. 10 Apr. (1967) 257 This mistress of his..is plaguing him into a phthisic and intolerable tediousness. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 372 His colleague's accordion is suspended in the midst of a phthisic wheeze. 1946 S. J. Perelman Keep it Crisp 239 The car emitted a deep, phthisic cough. 1988 C. McWilliam Case of Knives (1989) xxiv. 197 Tubbed outside, only camellias thrive in the phthisic air. 2. Ophthalmology. = phthisical adj. 2. ΚΠ 1971 Birth Defects Orig. Article Ser. 7 117 Norrie's disease is an X-linked disease presenting bilateral blindness at birth or during the first few months of life... Later the eyes usually become phthisic. 1985 Ann. Ophthalmol. 17 720/2 Two attempts to repair this [sc. a retinal detachment]..were unsuccessful, and the eye became phthisic. 1997 Jrnl. AAPOS 1 41 One of these eyes is phthisic and one has been enucleated. Derivatives † phthisicness n. (in form tisiknesse) Obsolete rare phthisic or asthmatic quality. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [noun] > shortness of breath > asthma asthmaa1398 pirrea1398 stifle1398 phthisicness1539 asthmasy1599 status asthmaticus1892 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iv. vi. f. 82 Tisiknesse or shortnesse of breth. 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