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

After going down the line several times and a number of scholars had fallen on some simple word the school-master pronounced the word "phthisic."

From Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul by Moore, Frank

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

I suppose, poor half-starved phthisic lad, that he was the most miserable of us all.

From Father and Son: a study of two temperaments by Gosse, Edmund