valetudinary
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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
I was first entertained by his lady and daughter, he himself being in bed with a cold, according to his valetudinary custom.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
Monsieur St. Euvremont makes thus his potage de santé of boiled meat for dinner being very valetudinary....
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne
It is still visited by valetudinary people, especially on the 1st of May and the 1st of August.
From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.
It renders the habit of society dangerously valetudinary; it is taking periodical doses of mercury sublimate, and swallowing down repeated provocatives of cantharides to our love of liberty.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
