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Webster 1913 Edition
Consumption
Con-sump′tion
(?; 215)
, Noun.
[L.
consumptio
: cf. F. consomption
.] 1.
The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his
consumption
. Burke.
2.
The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
3.
(Med.)
A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; – called also
pulmonary consumption
.
Syn. – Decline; waste; decay. See
Decline
. Webster 1828 Edition
Consumption
CONSUMPTION
,Noun.
1.
The act of consuming; waste; destruction by burning, eating, devouring, scattering, dissipation, slow decay, or by passing away, as time; as the consumption of fuel, of food, of commodities or estate, of time, &c. 2.
The state of being wasted, or diminished.Etna and Vesuvius have not suffered any considerable diminution or consumption.
3.
In medicine, a wasting of flesh; a gradual decay or diminution of the body; a word of extensive signification. But particularly, the disease called phthisis pulmonalis, pulmonic consumption, a disease seated in the lungs, attended with hectic fever, cough, &c.