valetudinary
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Beside these suffering men Lord George lay on a floor all night, having given up the minister's house in Musselburgh, which had been destined as his quarters, to those who were valetudinary.
From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Mrs. Thomson
The father, a good-natured, silly valetudinary, abandons the management of his household to Emma, he himself being only occupied by his summer and winter walk, his apothecary, his gruel, and his whist table.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
It is worthy of remark, that the Austrian medical officers send the valetudinary among the soldiers to these baths from a very great distance.
From Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
Instead of making him a valetudinary, this continual liability to death aided to make him a hero.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 by Various
Though valetudinary, he lived to be nearly ninety, and to welcome to Scotland his son, Colonel William Duncan, who, with the highest character for military and civil merit, had made a considerable fortune in India.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
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