valetudinary

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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 Gleig, G. R. (George Robert)

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

This attack gives a decidedly valetudinary tone to one of his subsequent letters to Deborah.

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

This quaint observation may have been due to some valetudinary motive, or, more probably, to some odd freak of association.

From Samuel Johnson by Stephen, Leslie, Sir

Could a person in this condition execute violence against another?—I, feeble and valetudinary, with no inducement to engage—no ability to accomplish—no weapon wherewith to perpetrate such a fact;—without interest, without power, without motives, without means!

From Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron