tubercular
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Latin tuberculum (“diminutive of tuber (“lump”)”) + -ar
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tubercular (comparative more tubercular, superlative most tubercular)
- Of, pertaining to, or having tuberculosis.
- Synonym: tuberculous
- 1924 November 24, “Critical Inspection of a Myth”, in Time:
- As he grew older, his tubercular thinness tended toward emaciation.
- 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel[1], Part One, Chapter 1:
- He set up business in Sydney, the little capital city of one of the middle Southern states, lived soberly and industriously under the attentive eye of a folk still raw with defeat and hostility, and finally, his good name founded and admission won, he married a gaunt tubercular spinstress, ten years his elder, but with a nest egg and an unshakable will to matrimony.
- 1941, Emily Carr, chapter 5, in Klee Wyck[2]:
- There had been, too, all the long weeks of Rosie’s tubercular dying to go through.
- 2012, Will Self, “Kafka’s Wound, A digital essay” London Review of Books website,[3]
- The adult Kafka – the Kafka vermiculated by tubercular bacilli after having been played on for decades, as a demonic organist might press fleshy keys and pull bony stops, by his own relentless neurasthenia – reached a mystical appreciation of his youthful velleity, characterising it as a desire both to expertly hammer together a table and at the same time ‘do nothing’.
- Relating to or reminiscent of the wheezing sounds associated with the breathing of tuberculosis patients.
- 1994, John DeChancie, David Bischoff, chapter 9, in Masters of Spacetime, Crossroad Press, published 2015:
- The engine heaved. […] The thing sounded like a tubercular tugboat engine without a muffler.
- 2007, Declan Hughes, chapter 1, in The Colour of Blood[4]:
- Crows on the roof beat their wings and made their low tubercular moan.
- 2016 October 8, Brad Wheeler, “Old Dylan and Stones deliver at new Desert Trip music festival”, in The Globe and Mail:
- His voice? A raspy, nasal and welcoming instrument, with a tubercular kind of charisma.
- Tuberculate.
- 1930, Emily Pelloe, West Australian Orchids[5], page 13:
- “ORANGE ORCHID” “SPOTTED ORCHID” […] Dorsal appendage of the hood of column smooth, tubercular and notched at the end.
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pertaining to tuberculosis
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Noun edit
tubercular (plural tuberculars)
- (dated) A person who has tuberculosis.
- 1954, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Hearings, page 907:
- They are the tuberculars, the psychiatrics, and the older men suffering from chronic conditions. All of those men are totally disabled.
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tubercular (not comparable)