valetudinary

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Beside these suffering men Lord George lay on a floor all night, having given up the minister's house in Musselburgh, which had been destined as his quarters, to those who were valetudinary.

From Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. by Thomson, Mrs.

The indulgence and accommodation which his sickness required, had taught him all the unpleasing and unsocial qualities of a valetudinary man.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

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)

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

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