CONSUMPTION

CONSUMPTION. → General scriptures concerning Le 26:16; De 28:22

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consumption. Consumption, n. the act of consuming, a disease

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Con‐sump″tion (?; 215), n. [[L. consumptio: cf. F. consomption.]] 1. 1. The act or process of consuming by use, waste, etc.; decay; destruction.
Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke. 2. 2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay.
3. 3. (Med.) 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 pulmonary consumption.
Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease. Syn. — Decline; waste; decay. See Decline.