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<hw>Con*sump"tion</hw> <tt>(?; 215)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>. <ety>[L. <ets>consumptio: cf. F. <ets>consomption</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.</def>

<blockquote>Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his <b>consumption</b>. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>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 <altname>pulmonary consumption</altname>.</def><-- tuberculosis -->

<cs><col>Consumption of the bowels</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Decline; waste; decay. See <er>Decline</er>.</syn>

<h1>Consumptive</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*sump"tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>consomptif</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting.</def>

<blockquote>It [prayer] is not <b>consumptive</b> or our time. <i>Sharp.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A long <b>consumptive</b> war. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>Affected with, or inclined to, consumption.</def>

<blockquote>The lean, <b>consumptive</b> wench, with coughs decayed. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Consumptive</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*sump"tive</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One affected with consumption; <as>as, a resort for <ex>consumptives</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Consumptively</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*sump"tive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a way tending to or indication consumption.</def>

<i>Beddoes.</i>

<h1>Consumptiveness</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con*sump"tive*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.</def>

<h1>Contabescent</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con`ta*bes"cent</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>contabescenc</ets>, p.pr. of <ets>contabescere</ets>.]</ety> <def>Wasting away gradually.</def>

<i>Darwin.</i>

- <wordforms><wf>Con*ta*bes"cence</wf> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Contact</h1> <Xpage=311>

<hw>Con"tact</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>contactus</ets>, fr. <ets>contingere</ets>, <ets>-tactum</ets>, to touch on all sides. See <er>Contingent</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Geom.)</fld> <def>The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.</def>

<i>Raymond.</i>