valetudinary

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Definition of valetudinary

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

(obsolete)Sickly, infirm, valetudinarian.

“"His Majesty began to become valetudinary; and the hypochondria which tormented him rendered his humor very melancholy.”
“It produces a weak valetudinary state of body, attended by all those horrid disorders, and yet more horrid methods of cure, which are the result of luxury on the one hand, and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other.”

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adj

(obsolete)Sickly, infirm, valetudinarian.

“"His Majesty began to become valetudinary; and the hypochondria which tormented him rendered his humor very melancholy.”
“It produces a weak valetudinary state of body, attended by all those horrid disorders, and yet more horrid methods of cure, which are the result of luxury on the one hand, and the weak and ridiculous efforts of human art on the other.”

noun

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From Latin valētūdinārius. By surface analysis, valetude + -in- + -ary. Doublet of valetudinarious.

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