phthisic

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015

On the first examination he said he could not account for the statements of his captain and surgeon, unless they arose from a remark he made that he had phthisic when he was small.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

Then Dilsie could sleep in the cabin, as she ought to on account of the jimsonweed in her phthisic pipe.

From The Tinder-Box by Daviess, Maria Thompson

Your doctors of physic May banish the phthisic.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829 by Various

I do wish these reformers had come around sooner, when I was learning to spell phthisic, syzygy, daguerreotype, and caoutchouc.

From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Pearson, Francis B.