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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Valetudinarian

Val′e·tu′di·na′ri·an, a. [L. valetudinarius, from valetudo state of health, health, ill health, fr. valere to be strong or well: cf. F. valétudinaire. See Valiant.] Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.

My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach. Coleridge.

The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue. Macaulay.

Val′e·tu′di·na′ri·an, n. A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.

Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold. Swift.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.