valetudinary
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Monsieur St. Euvremont makes thus his potage de santé of boiled meat for dinner being very valetudinary....
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
Those subject to this Malady are valetudinary weakly Persons, who are disordered from many slight Causes, and whose Stomachs are at once very feeble and extremely sensible.
From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)
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 Johnson, R. Brimley
His Majesty began to become valetudinary; and the hypochondria which tormented him rendered his humor very melancholy.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 by Carlyle, Thomas
She had the misfortune of a very valetudinary constitution, owing, in some measure, probably to the irregularity of her form.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus
