phthisic

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Volutes, asportation, imbricated, Mnemosyne and phthisic are a few of the others.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015

All sorts of diseases, Whatever you pleases, The phthisic, the palsy, and the gout; If the devil's in, I'll blow him out.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

You have the phthisic, when I know you have climbed the Rigi and Montanvert, and half the mountains in Switzerland!

From Bessie's Fortune A Novel by Holmes, Mary Jane

Yes, there's considerable of ager and phthisic and bilious fever.

From Hoosier Mosaics by Thompson, Maurice

What you are about, I cannot guess, even from your date;—not dauncing to the sound of the gitourney in the Halls of the Lowthers? one of whom is here, ill, poor thing, with a phthisic.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas