Definition of "tubercular"
tubercular
adjective
comparative more tubercular, superlative most tubercular
Of, pertaining to, or having tuberculosis.
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He set up business in Sydney, the little capital city of one of the middle Southern states, lived soberly and industriously under the attentive eye of a folk still raw with defeat and hostility, and finally, his good name founded and admission won, he married a gaunt tubercular spinstress, ten years his elder, but with a nest egg and an unshakable will to matrimony.
1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, Part One, Chapter 1
The adult Kafka – the Kafka vermiculated by tubercular bacilli after having been played on for decades, as a demonic organist might press fleshy keys and pull bony stops, by his own relentless neurasthenia – reached a mystical appreciation of his youthful velleity, characterising it as a desire both to expertly hammer together a table and at the same time ‘do nothing’.
2012, Will Self, “Kafka’s Wound, A digital essay” London Review of Books website
Relating to or reminiscent of the wheezing sounds associated with the breathing of tuberculosis patients.
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