Con*sump"tive (?), a. [Cf. F. consomptif.]
1.
Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.
It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time.
Sharp.
A long consumptive war.
Addison.
2. Med.
Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.
The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed.
Dryden.
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Con*sump"tive, n.
One affected with consumption; as, a resort for consumptives.
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