pleuritical

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with pleurisy.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectivepleuritical (comparative more pleuritical, superlative most pleuritical)

comparative more pleuritical · superlative most pleuritical

  1. Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with pleurisy.

    One is sick of the pleuritical stitches of envy; one of the contracting cramp of covetousness; another of the atrophy of unproficiency.

    1612–1634, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=I to VIII), London, →OCLC
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