a. Obs. [See VALETUDINARY and -IOUS.] Having weak health; valetudinary. Also fig.

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1648.  Petit. Eastern Assoc., 14. Our Parliament might be somewhat valetudinarious.

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1662.  Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., III. lv. 504. Valitudinarious bodies can as well spare food as physick.

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1702.  C. Mather, Magn. Chr., VI. vii. 70. About the Beginning of January he began to be very Valetudinarious, labouring under Pains that seem’d Ischiatick.

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1704.  S. Sewall, Diary, 1 April (1879), II. 97. Visited my valetudinarious son at Brooklin.

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