phthisic

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2015

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.

You have the phthisic, when I know you have climbed the Rigi and Montanvert, and half the mountains in Switzerland!

From Bessie's Fortune A Novel by Holmes, Mary Jane

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

She put it on her knee, and played a tune that would have made gout, cholic and phthisic dance upon their last legs.

From Peg Woffington by Reade, Charles