consumptiven.adj.

Brit.

/kənˈsʌm(p)tɪv/, U.S.

/kənˈsəm(p)tɪv/

Forms: Middle English consumptife, Middle English–1500s consumptyue, Middle English–1600s consumptiue, 1500s consumtyue, 1600s consumptif, 1600s– consumptive.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin consumptivum ; Latin consumptivus ; French consumptif ; Latin consumpt- , consūmere , -ive suffix.

Etymology: As noun originally (i) < post-classical Latin consumptivum medicinal agent used to reduce or eliminate morbid humours or tissue (1363 in Chauliac), use as noun of neuter of consumptivus , adjective (see below). As adjective partly < (ii) Anglo-Norman and Middle French consumptif (French consomptif ) (of a medicine) having the property of absorbing humours (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), (of an illness) weakening, destructive (c1390), and its etymon (iii) post-classical Latin consumptivus wasteful, destructive (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), relating or belonging to pulmonary consumption (14th cent. in a British source; < classical Latin consumpt- , past participial stem of consūmere consume v.¹ + -īvus -ive suffix), and partly (iv) < its elements classical Latin consumpt- (see above) + -ive suffix; the senses ‘relating or belonging to pulmonary consumption’ and ‘(of a person) suffering from pulmonary consumption’ are apparently not paralleled in French until later (1672 and 1808 respectively). Compare Catalan consumptiu destructive (15th cent.). Compare consumption n.

A. n.

†1. A medicinal agent used to reduce or eliminate morbid humours or diseased tissue. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devouring (of fire, etc.) > that which devours (of fire, insects, etc.) > one who or that which consumes time, money, etc.

consumerc1425

gulf1538

locust1545

moth1577

depastor1583

whale1606

consumptive1739

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xv. 361 In þe bygynnynge me schal do þerto..swagynge medycynes..in þe encresinge meneliche dissolutifes, and in þe endes consumptifes.

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 31 Þe ȝa intencion is complete..In þe declinacion [of vdimia] with consumptiuez [L. cum consumptivis].

1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. civ. 337 I..dressed it..with the consumptive, to destroy the fungous Flesh.

2. A person affected with consumption. Also (with the and plural agreement): consumptive people as a class (rare). Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

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

phthisica1398

phthisical1618

hectica1657

consumptive1666

pulmonic1733

phthinode1870

1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus i. 3 The Spring is bad for Consumptives.

1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis: Second Pt. in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) vi. 33 (margin) A sulphureous air healthful to some Consumptives.

1714 W. Salmon Ars Anatomica i. ix. 40/2 As Diemerbroeck..has sufficiently proved in three several Consumptives.

1745 W. Forster Treat. Causes Most Dis. 100 The Choler in Consumptives is very Sharp.

1805 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 3 632/1 The consumptive are usually remarkable for quickness of intellect.

1807 J. Sinclair Code Health & Longevity I. 117 Might it not then be of greatest service, both to the aged and to the consumptive?

1825 U.S. Lit. Gaz. 1 364/1 I have no ambition to make one in the interesting class of consumptives, which abound here.

1880 ‘V. Lee’ Stud. 18th Cent. Italy iii. iii. 126 Where consumptives are sent to revive or to die.

1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 11 Nov. (1993) III. 88 It was abnormal for me to be ill and that was my great ‘pull’ over other consumptives.

1995 New Mexico Apr. 84/2 The Huning Highland neighborhood preserves this memory in several ‘tent’ houses built for consumptives.

2002 M. McGrath Silvertown (2003) xviii. 177 The next procedure was to collapse the lungs some other way, either by crushing the consumptive's phrenic nerve..or by blowing up the abdomen like a balloon.

B. adj.

†1. Of a medicinal agent: reducing or eliminating morbid humours or diseased tissue. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 61^v (MED) Hote þingez consumptyuez [L. calidis consumptivis], as beþ calcitez, Alumen..vitriolum.

c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 83 (MED) Auripigment is desiccatyue, consumptiue, euaporatyue.

?1530 R. Bacon Bk. Beste Waters Artifycyalles sig. Cii^v This water is consumtyue and dissolutyue.

1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things x. §63. 288 A thing more repercussyue & consumptiue against colde humors, then the Saphyre or Planteyn.

a. Characteristic, symptomatic, or suggestive of the disease consumption; associated with or accompanying consumption. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

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

consumptive1588

phthisical1611

phthisic1694

phthinoid1870

phthisiogenetic1904

1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method ii. vii. f. 53 Those that suffered such ulcers, at length to have been taken with a consumptive ague.

1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica x. xxxi. 233 She was nor dwarfe-like statur'd, nor too tall, Nor foggy fat, nor yet Consumptiue leane.

1663 J. Beale Let. 9 Nov. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. II. 201 A gentlewoeman of rare beauty lost all her fayre roses & complexion by consumptive coughes, rheumes, & greene sickness.

1703 W. Salmon Collectanea Medica iii. ix. 378/1 Therefore [it] is to be found profitable in all Consumptive weaknesses, Phthisicks, Ulcers, of the Lungs, &c.

1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 46 A Consumptive Cough.

1797 J. Sprange Tunbridge Wells Guide 6 One can hardly conceive an idea of a place more properly adapted to restore health to a consumptive habit.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xix. 199 And pale slender women with consumptive faces lingered upon the footsteps of ventriloquists and conjurors.

1899 Lancet 18 Mar. 747/1 In the phthinoid or consumptive form of bronchitis there is an abundant expectoration of purulent sputa.

1940 Isis 31 384 A consumptive condition also opened the door for other diseases, such as dropsy and quintan fever.

1963 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos Tribune 26 July 7/2 The wholesome, scrubbed look is in and the pasty-faced, consumptive look is out.

2006 Current Biol. 16 R964/1 Tuberculosis is now largely controlled in the industrialized world, but the mechanism of consumptive wasting continues to hold considerable interest for pathologists.

b. Affected with, or predisposed to, consumption; also in figurative context and extended use. Now chiefly historical and literary.Often hyperbolical in literary use.

ΘΚΠ

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

pinedOE

dwined?a1366

tabefactc1425

consumptive1648

languishing1683

dwining1718

marasmoid1857

marasmous1857

marasmic1876

marantic1881

abiotrophic1902

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

1648 Brief Disc. Present Miseries of Kingdome 16 Most times it [sc. war] so ruines and destroyes the fabrick, and constitution of health, that it leave a weake, miserable, and consumptive body ever after.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. vi. 74 I must say of him as Galen said of consumptive persons.., the more they hope, the worse they are.

1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. Ep. Ded. sig. A2^v The consumptive body of this our Nation, hath lost so much of her best blood, and spirits.

1660 S. Pepys Diary 17 July (1970) I. 202 An old consumptive man.

1703 W. Salmon Collectanea Medica ii. xxvi. 309/1 A certain Physician, slighting this Counsel, caused a weakly or Consumptive Man..to be let Blood in Summer time.

1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 342 The consumptive patients have their particular ward.

1866 De Bow's Rev. Oct. 384 Our consumptive invalids who annually crowd to Southern Europe.

1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 3 He is consumptive and has not many years to live.

1899 H. Stuart Lochs & Loch Fishing i. iv. 34 They contained the bacilli of consumption, and were, in a word, tuberculosed or consumptive fish.

1944 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiv. 130 The jagged mountains of limestone, so weathered that the outline looks like the temperature chart of a consumptive invalid.

1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Aug. 24/1 One thinks of poor consumptive Franz Kafka..performing his daily calisthenics at the wide-open window of his bedroom.

2006 Time Out N.Y. 30 Nov. 157/1 Stoppard's slightly perverse idea of a chronicle play is to eavesdrop on consumptive intellectuals quibbling over..the disparity between Being and Reality.

c. figurative. Weakened, diminished, wasted. Now chiefly poetic.

ΚΠ

1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations viii. 195 Eagle to a Carcasse, the Night-raven to the funerall of a consumptive Church & Monarchy.

1702 F. Brewster New Ess. on Trade iii. 26 It is apparent our Trade is Consumptive, decays inwardly.

a1711 T. Ken Anodynes in Wks. (1721) III. 437 The Sun, which..Faint and consumptive Ardours cast.

1844 Times 20 Dec. 5/2 He has contrived to divert the attention of his dupes from the consumptive state of the Repeal question.

1853 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 347/2 The main question—namely, whether the drama be truly..in a consumptive condition, and whether its revival on any large and liberal scale be no longer practicable.

1967 R. Creeley Charm 31 At midnight the world is a mediate perspective... Consumptive prayers keep us: the moon in its low chamber.

1994 A. Henri Not fade Away 29 Gravestones piled deep as fallen leaves, trodden into the sodden ground; last consumptive flush of Autumn in the sycamores.

†d. Financially weakened; spent. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > involving great or excessive expenditure

dear1044

chargeous138.

wastyc1380

dear-boughtc1384

costlewa1387

costlya1425

costy?c1430

costfulc1450

costablea1475

chargeable1480

sumptuous1485

chargeful1529

deep1608

tributary1632

burdenablec1650

expensivea1661

consumptive1753

capital-intensive1907

1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. xlviii. 108 He..insisted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, which he knew to be in a most consumptive condition.

1847 United Service Mag. July 365 A demand for 28l. 14s. 6¾d. on my consumptive finances was so egregiously absurd..that I was tempted..to laugh in the face of the dapper little clerk.

†3.

a. Of an offering: intended to be consumed by fire. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devouring

nimminga1225

devouringa1382

swallowinga1400

whelmingc1440

consumingc1475

wide-mouthed1567

devoratory1647

consumptive1651

bloodsucking1658

involving1737

engulfing1761

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying iv. §8 They that make consumptive oblations.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 327 The ancient Heathen burnt incense to their Gods, which is a consumptive Sacrifice.

1667 Bp. J. Taylor 2nd Pt. Dissuasive from Popery i. ix. 236 Consumptive Offerings to Saints.

1711 H. Dodwell Disc. conc. Use of Incense in Divine Offices 222 Agobardus takes no notice of any such sensible consumptive Oblation as offered on that Christian Altar of Incense.

b. Liable to decay; perishable. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > decayed > liable to decay

caduke1483

perishablec1484

caducea1513

caducal?1548

ruinable1654

fugitive1678

consumptive1724

unpreservable1787

caducous1863

1724 J. Swift Let. to People of Ireland 15 According to the Nature of all Consumptive Bodies like ours.

4. Tending to consume, use up, or devour, esp. wastefully.In quot. 1748: expensive, costly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > wasteful

wastefula1616

consumptive1652

unfrugala1662

infrugal1684

uneconomical1840

uneconomic1843

ineconomic1852

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [adjective]

consumptive1748

spendthrift1790

uneconomical1840

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective]

fellc1330

undone1340

ruinous?a1439

violablea1470

perniciousc1475

destructive1490

confusible1502

destroying1535

exitiable1548

ruinate1562

peremptory1567

wrackful1578

slaughterous1582

ruinating1595

ruining1605

corrumpent1607

wracksome1608

in suds1611

destructory1614

poisonousa1616

wrakefulc1625

predatory1626

predatorious1641

demolishing1648

untwined1649

undoing1654

destructionable1656

destructful1659

mortal1670

wreckinga1677

fatal1692

quadrumanous1704

interdestructive1805

annihilatory1825

demolitionary1834

ruinatious1845

consumptive1860

thunderous1874

1652 Present Posture Irel. 8 The pursuit thereof for seven yeers at least was far more consumptive of the English then the Irish.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 20 If..he shall esteem it too consumptive of time.

1670 A. Marvell Let. 14 June in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 265 To manage such a thing as this in letters was a thing too tedious and consumptiue.

1717 Reasons against Standing Army 18 Are we apprehensive, lest France..will be more capable of offending us just after the late tedious and consumptive War.

1748 H. Walpole Let. 16 Feb. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 244 Operas are the only consumptive entertainment.

1849 Times 5 May 5/1 There is a wide difference between a loan towards a reproductive work, and one towards a work which may rather be called consumptive than reproductive.

1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 106 The consumptive energy of the termites, or white ants.

1950 Calif. Law Rev. 38 683 Irrigators and other consumptive users of water.

1998 B. Tellman et al. Future Arid Grasslands ii. 193 Some past studies have assumed that septic systems reduce consumptive use [of water] in residential homes.

5. Of, for, or relating to economic consumption. Cf. consumption n. 7.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [adjective]

spendible1483

spendablea1500

consumptive1680

consumable1692

1680 W. Petyt Britannia Languens v. 63 [Merchants] will be obliged to better their Adventures by laying out the money again on Consumptive Forreign Goods.

1775 B. Franklin Let. 7 July in Papers (1982) XXII. 93 By..the stoppage of our consumptive trade with Britain, we shall be better able to pay our voluntary taxes for the support of our troops.

1818 S. Phelps Anal. Human Nature I. ix. 270 The difference between the creative and consumptive power is the measure of the progress of wealth or poverty, in every nation.

1864 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. A fair consumptive demand for wheat.

1888 Glasgow Herald 29 Aug. Indian corn met a fair consumptive sale at late rates.

1913 Economist 22 Feb. 459/1 When viewed..from an consumptive standpoint, 1912 must be regarded as an abnormally good year.

1972 G. Garvey Energy, Ecol., Econ. iii. 67 Increased production of an energetically charged substance creates a need for increased consumptive capacity elsewhere.

1999 L. H. White Theory Monetary Inst. ii. 34 In the flow market, the lower ppg causes an increase in the volume of consumptive demand for gold.

Compounds

consumptive-looking adj.

ΚΠ

1783 H. L. Thrale Let. 30 Aug. in Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) I. 265 The foreigners only get a notion of England's being unwholesome by seeing such consumptive looking creatures come out of it.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxviii. 132 The consumptive-looking Jew.

2002 Q July 54/3 Consumptive-looking goth-rocker Cave..earned his stripes with damaged post-punks The Birthday Party.

Derivatives

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.

conˈsumptiveness n.

ΘΚΠ

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

1677 F. Bampfield All in One 156 The Scriptures can inform us of the discouragement of the Soul:..its Consumptiveness; its being spoiled; its need of healing; [etc.].

1837 Foreign Q. Rev. July 312 There is in these poems of Uhland's a certain air of weak consumptiveness, which we do not relish.

1996 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 17 Nov. We will fail ourselves..if we fail to curb our own population and our own consumptiveness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	consumptive
释义	consumptiven.adj. Brit. /kənˈsʌm(p)tɪv/, U.S. /kənˈsəm(p)tɪv/ Forms: Middle English consumptife, Middle English–1500s consumptyue, Middle English–1600s consumptiue, 1500s consumtyue, 1600s consumptif, 1600s– consumptive. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin consumptivum ; Latin consumptivus ; French consumptif ; Latin consumpt- , consūmere , -ive suffix. Etymology: As noun originally (i) < post-classical Latin consumptivum medicinal agent used to reduce or eliminate morbid humours or tissue (1363 in Chauliac), use as noun of neuter of consumptivus , adjective (see below). As adjective partly < (ii) Anglo-Norman and Middle French consumptif (French consomptif ) (of a medicine) having the property of absorbing humours (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman), (of an illness) weakening, destructive (c1390), and its etymon (iii) post-classical Latin consumptivus wasteful, destructive (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), relating or belonging to pulmonary consumption (14th cent. in a British source; < classical Latin consumpt- , past participial stem of consūmere consume v.¹ + -īvus -ive suffix), and partly (iv) < its elements classical Latin consumpt- (see above) + -ive suffix; the senses ‘relating or belonging to pulmonary consumption’ and ‘(of a person) suffering from pulmonary consumption’ are apparently not paralleled in French until later (1672 and 1808 respectively). Compare Catalan consumptiu destructive (15th cent.). Compare consumption n. A. n. †1. A medicinal agent used to reduce or eliminate morbid humours or diseased tissue. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devouring (of fire, etc.) > that which devours (of fire, insects, etc.) > one who or that which consumes time, money, etc. consumerc1425 gulf1538 locust1545 moth1577 depastor1583 whale1606 consumptive1739 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xv. 361 In þe bygynnynge me schal do þerto..swagynge medycynes..in þe encresinge meneliche dissolutifes, and in þe endes consumptifes. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 31 Þe ȝa intencion is complete..In þe declinacion [of vdimia] with consumptiuez [L. cum consumptivis]. 1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. civ. 337 I..dressed it..with the consumptive, to destroy the fungous Flesh. 2. A person affected with consumption. Also (with the and plural agreement): consumptive people as a class (rare). Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [noun] > consumption > person phthisica1398 phthisical1618 hectica1657 consumptive1666 pulmonic1733 phthinode1870 1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus i. 3 The Spring is bad for Consumptives. 1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis: Second Pt. in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) vi. 33 (margin) A sulphureous air healthful to some Consumptives. 1714 W. Salmon Ars Anatomica i. ix. 40/2 As Diemerbroeck..has sufficiently proved in three several Consumptives. 1745 W. Forster Treat. Causes Most Dis. 100 The Choler in Consumptives is very Sharp. 1805 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 3 632/1 The consumptive are usually remarkable for quickness of intellect. 1807 J. Sinclair Code Health & Longevity I. 117 Might it not then be of greatest service, both to the aged and to the consumptive? 1825 U.S. Lit. Gaz. 1 364/1 I have no ambition to make one in the interesting class of consumptives, which abound here. 1880 ‘V. Lee’ Stud. 18th Cent. Italy iii. iii. 126 Where consumptives are sent to revive or to die. 1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 11 Nov. (1993) III. 88 It was abnormal for me to be ill and that was my great ‘pull’ over other consumptives. 1995 New Mexico Apr. 84/2 The Huning Highland neighborhood preserves this memory in several ‘tent’ houses built for consumptives. 2002 M. McGrath Silvertown (2003) xviii. 177 The next procedure was to collapse the lungs some other way, either by crushing the consumptive's phrenic nerve..or by blowing up the abdomen like a balloon. B. adj. †1. Of a medicinal agent: reducing or eliminating morbid humours or diseased tissue. Obsolete. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 61^v (MED) Hote þingez consumptyuez [L. calidis consumptivis], as beþ calcitez, Alumen..vitriolum. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 83 (MED) Auripigment is desiccatyue, consumptiue, euaporatyue. ?1530 R. Bacon Bk. Beste Waters Artifycyalles sig. Cii^v This water is consumtyue and dissolutyue. 1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things x. §63. 288 A thing more repercussyue & consumptiue against colde humors, then the Saphyre or Planteyn. 2. a. Characteristic, symptomatic, or suggestive of the disease consumption; associated with or accompanying consumption. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] > relating to consumption consumptive1588 phthisical1611 phthisic1694 phthinoid1870 phthisiogenetic1904 1588 J. Read tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method ii. vii. f. 53 Those that suffered such ulcers, at length to have been taken with a consumptive ague. 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica x. xxxi. 233 She was nor dwarfe-like statur'd, nor too tall, Nor foggy fat, nor yet Consumptiue leane. 1663 J. Beale Let. 9 Nov. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) II. II. 201 A gentlewoeman of rare beauty lost all her fayre roses & complexion by consumptive coughes, rheumes, & greene sickness. 1703 W. Salmon Collectanea Medica iii. ix. 378/1 Therefore [it] is to be found profitable in all Consumptive weaknesses, Phthisicks, Ulcers, of the Lungs, &c. 1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 46 A Consumptive Cough. 1797 J. Sprange Tunbridge Wells Guide 6 One can hardly conceive an idea of a place more properly adapted to restore health to a consumptive habit. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xix. 199 And pale slender women with consumptive faces lingered upon the footsteps of ventriloquists and conjurors. 1899 Lancet 18 Mar. 747/1 In the phthinoid or consumptive form of bronchitis there is an abundant expectoration of purulent sputa. 1940 Isis 31 384 A consumptive condition also opened the door for other diseases, such as dropsy and quintan fever. 1963 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos Tribune 26 July 7/2 The wholesome, scrubbed look is in and the pasty-faced, consumptive look is out. 2006 Current Biol. 16 R964/1 Tuberculosis is now largely controlled in the industrialized world, but the mechanism of consumptive wasting continues to hold considerable interest for pathologists. b. Affected with, or predisposed to, consumption; also in figurative context and extended use. Now chiefly historical and literary.Often hyperbolical in literary use. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > wasting disease > [adjective] pinedOE dwined?a1366 tabefactc1425 consumptive1648 languishing1683 dwining1718 marasmoid1857 marasmous1857 marasmic1876 marantic1881 abiotrophic1902 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 1648 Brief Disc. Present Miseries of Kingdome 16 Most times it [sc. war] so ruines and destroyes the fabrick, and constitution of health, that it leave a weake, miserable, and consumptive body ever after. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. vi. 74 I must say of him as Galen said of consumptive persons.., the more they hope, the worse they are. 1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. Ep. Ded. sig. A2^v The consumptive body of this our Nation, hath lost so much of her best blood, and spirits. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 17 July (1970) I. 202 An old consumptive man. 1703 W. Salmon Collectanea Medica ii. xxvi. 309/1 A certain Physician, slighting this Counsel, caused a weakly or Consumptive Man..to be let Blood in Summer time. 1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 342 The consumptive patients have their particular ward. 1866 De Bow's Rev. Oct. 384 Our consumptive invalids who annually crowd to Southern Europe. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal III. i. 3 He is consumptive and has not many years to live. 1899 H. Stuart Lochs & Loch Fishing i. iv. 34 They contained the bacilli of consumption, and were, in a word, tuberculosed or consumptive fish. 1944 C. Beaton Diary in Self Portrait with Friends (1979) xiv. 130 The jagged mountains of limestone, so weathered that the outline looks like the temperature chart of a consumptive invalid. 1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 Aug. 24/1 One thinks of poor consumptive Franz Kafka..performing his daily calisthenics at the wide-open window of his bedroom. 2006 Time Out N.Y. 30 Nov. 157/1 Stoppard's slightly perverse idea of a chronicle play is to eavesdrop on consumptive intellectuals quibbling over..the disparity between Being and Reality. c. figurative. Weakened, diminished, wasted. Now chiefly poetic. ΚΠ 1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations viii. 195 Eagle to a Carcasse, the Night-raven to the funerall of a consumptive Church & Monarchy. 1702 F. Brewster New Ess. on Trade iii. 26 It is apparent our Trade is Consumptive, decays inwardly. a1711 T. Ken Anodynes in Wks. (1721) III. 437 The Sun, which..Faint and consumptive Ardours cast. 1844 Times 20 Dec. 5/2 He has contrived to divert the attention of his dupes from the consumptive state of the Repeal question. 1853 Fraser's Mag. Sept. 347/2 The main question—namely, whether the drama be truly..in a consumptive condition, and whether its revival on any large and liberal scale be no longer practicable. 1967 R. Creeley Charm 31 At midnight the world is a mediate perspective... Consumptive prayers keep us: the moon in its low chamber. 1994 A. Henri Not fade Away 29 Gravestones piled deep as fallen leaves, trodden into the sodden ground; last consumptive flush of Autumn in the sycamores. †d. Financially weakened; spent. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [adjective] > involving great or excessive expenditure dear1044 chargeous138. wastyc1380 dear-boughtc1384 costlewa1387 costlya1425 costy?c1430 costfulc1450 costablea1475 chargeable1480 sumptuous1485 chargeful1529 deep1608 tributary1632 burdenablec1650 expensivea1661 consumptive1753 capital-intensive1907 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. xlviii. 108 He..insisted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, which he knew to be in a most consumptive condition. 1847 United Service Mag. July 365 A demand for 28l. 14s. 6¾d. on my consumptive finances was so egregiously absurd..that I was tempted..to laugh in the face of the dapper little clerk. †3. a. Of an offering: intended to be consumed by fire. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > devouring nimminga1225 devouringa1382 swallowinga1400 whelmingc1440 consumingc1475 wide-mouthed1567 devoratory1647 consumptive1651 bloodsucking1658 involving1737 engulfing1761 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying iv. §8 They that make consumptive oblations. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 327 The ancient Heathen burnt incense to their Gods, which is a consumptive Sacrifice. 1667 Bp. J. Taylor 2nd Pt. Dissuasive from Popery i. ix. 236 Consumptive Offerings to Saints. 1711 H. Dodwell Disc. conc. Use of Incense in Divine Offices 222 Agobardus takes no notice of any such sensible consumptive Oblation as offered on that Christian Altar of Incense. b. Liable to decay; perishable. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > decayed > liable to decay caduke1483 perishablec1484 caducea1513 caducal?1548 ruinable1654 fugitive1678 consumptive1724 unpreservable1787 caducous1863 1724 J. Swift Let. to People of Ireland 15 According to the Nature of all Consumptive Bodies like ours. 4. Tending to consume, use up, or devour, esp. wastefully.In quot. 1748: expensive, costly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > wasteful wastefula1616 consumptive1652 unfrugala1662 infrugal1684 uneconomical1840 uneconomic1843 ineconomic1852 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [adjective] consumptive1748 spendthrift1790 uneconomical1840 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] fellc1330 undone1340 ruinous?a1439 violablea1470 perniciousc1475 destructive1490 confusible1502 destroying1535 exitiable1548 ruinate1562 peremptory1567 wrackful1578 slaughterous1582 ruinating1595 ruining1605 corrumpent1607 wracksome1608 in suds1611 destructory1614 poisonousa1616 wrakefulc1625 predatory1626 predatorious1641 demolishing1648 untwined1649 undoing1654 destructionable1656 destructful1659 mortal1670 wreckinga1677 fatal1692 quadrumanous1704 interdestructive1805 annihilatory1825 demolitionary1834 ruinatious1845 consumptive1860 thunderous1874 1652 Present Posture Irel. 8 The pursuit thereof for seven yeers at least was far more consumptive of the English then the Irish. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 20 If..he shall esteem it too consumptive of time. 1670 A. Marvell Let. 14 June in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 265 To manage such a thing as this in letters was a thing too tedious and consumptiue. 1717 Reasons against Standing Army 18 Are we apprehensive, lest France..will be more capable of offending us just after the late tedious and consumptive War. 1748 H. Walpole Let. 16 Feb. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 244 Operas are the only consumptive entertainment. 1849 Times 5 May 5/1 There is a wide difference between a loan towards a reproductive work, and one towards a work which may rather be called consumptive than reproductive. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 106 The consumptive energy of the termites, or white ants. 1950 Calif. Law Rev. 38 683 Irrigators and other consumptive users of water. 1998 B. Tellman et al. Future Arid Grasslands ii. 193 Some past studies have assumed that septic systems reduce consumptive use [of water] in residential homes. 5. Of, for, or relating to economic consumption. Cf. consumption n. 7. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > [adjective] spendible1483 spendablea1500 consumptive1680 consumable1692 1680 W. Petyt Britannia Languens v. 63 [Merchants] will be obliged to better their Adventures by laying out the money again on Consumptive Forreign Goods. 1775 B. Franklin Let. 7 July in Papers (1982) XXII. 93 By..the stoppage of our consumptive trade with Britain, we shall be better able to pay our voluntary taxes for the support of our troops. 1818 S. Phelps Anal. Human Nature I. ix. 270 The difference between the creative and consumptive power is the measure of the progress of wealth or poverty, in every nation. 1864 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. A fair consumptive demand for wheat. 1888 Glasgow Herald 29 Aug. Indian corn met a fair consumptive sale at late rates. 1913 Economist 22 Feb. 459/1 When viewed..from an consumptive standpoint, 1912 must be regarded as an abnormally good year. 1972 G. Garvey Energy, Ecol., Econ. iii. 67 Increased production of an energetically charged substance creates a need for increased consumptive capacity elsewhere. 1999 L. H. White Theory Monetary Inst. ii. 34 In the flow market, the lower ppg causes an increase in the volume of consumptive demand for gold. Compounds consumptive-looking adj. ΚΠ 1783 H. L. Thrale Let. 30 Aug. in Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) I. 265 The foreigners only get a notion of England's being unwholesome by seeing such consumptive looking creatures come out of it. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxviii. 132 The consumptive-looking Jew. 2002 Q July 54/3 Consumptive-looking goth-rocker Cave..earned his stripes with damaged post-punks The Birthday Party. Derivatives 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. conˈsumptiveness n. ΘΚΠ 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 1677 F. Bampfield All in One 156 The Scriptures can inform us of the discouragement of the Soul:..its Consumptiveness; its being spoiled; its need of healing; [etc.]. 1837 Foreign Q. Rev. July 312 There is in these poems of Uhland's a certain air of weak consumptiveness, which we do not relish. 1996 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 17 Nov. We will fail ourselves..if we fail to curb our own population and our own consumptiveness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.a1398
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