a. and sb. Also 6 asmatycke, -icke, asthmatyke, -ique, -icke, 7–8 -ick. [ad. L. asthmaticus, a. Gr. ἀαθματικός: see ASTHMA and -IC.]

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  A.  adj.

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  1.  Affected with or suffering from asthma.

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1542.  Boorde, Dyetary, xxxv. (1870), 296. A dyete for … asthmatyke men.

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1582.  Hester, Phiorav. Secr., III. cxi. 135. Giuen in the broth of a Chickin vnto those that are Asmaticke.

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1775.  H. Walpole, Last Jrnls., 14 March. Asthmatic and unhealthy like her father.

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1861.  Wynter, Soc. Bees, 459. An asthmatic patient.

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  2.  Of or pertaining to asthma.

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1620.  Venner, Via Recta, iii. 61. The Asthmatick passion … is a short and painfull fetching of breath.

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1872.  Black, Adv. Phaeton, xxiv. 328. Interrupted by a fit of asthmatic coughing.

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  b.  Good against asthma.

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1880.  M. Collins, Th. in Gard., I. 53. An asthmatic balsam that is ‘truly efficacious and pleasant.’

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  3.  fig. Puffing, wheezy.

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1853.  Kane, Grinnell Exp., cxi. The asthmatic old steam-tug.

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  B.  sb. A person suffering from asthma.

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1610.  Barrough, Physick, II. vii. (1639), 82. You must give unto the Asthmaticks … Antidotes.

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1871.  Napheys, Prev. & Cure Dis., III. vii. 891. Why should the close air of a crowded room be balmiest of airs to some asthmatics?

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