valetudinary

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Be pleased to acquaint us how we must behave our selves towards this valetudinary Friendship, subject to so many Heats and Colds, and you will oblige, Sir, Your humble Servant, Miranda.'

From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph

Instead of making him a valetudinary, this continual liability to death aided to make him a hero.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 by Various

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

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

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