valetudinarian , also: valetudinary

Something in his manner makes you suspect he was always an instinctive valetudinarian.

"I may as well face it," said this valetudinarian of twenty-seven, "I'm old."

"I studied at the valetudinarian of the Sisters of Light."

James Boswell described him as a great valetudinarian.

Well, you can hardly play the valetudinarian in boho Soho.

"I am compelled to be a valetudinarian."

Duchal had leisure for study, and lived much among books, with the habits of a valetudinarian.

The Sisters of Light had loved and valued her for her contribution to their valetudinarian.

Unlike the calm order of the valetudinarian or even the strict protocol of her father's castle, here chaos ruled.

He is a valetudinarian (i.e., similar to a hypochondriac but more likely to be genuinely ill).

Rodney, something of a valetudinarian, complained that 'nothing in nature is so disagreeable as hard weather at sea', but most people took it for granted.

After the strict regime of the valetudinarian and her father's even harsher rule, this taste of freedom, though false, was heady indeed.

While plentiful, food at the valetudinarian was plain and bland to accommodate the sensitive palates of the elderly sisters and their patients.

On the other hand, he added, I might prefer to wait for Yarell, whose present incumbent, a valetudinarian of over seventy, lives in Bath.

An old valetudinarian in the city, who knew every spa in Europe, wanted to try that of Priory Leas and had consulted him about it.

And while "The Valetudinarian" is far from a rip-off, Treisman points out that it has echoes of Saunders's humor.

After a healing she often needed as much as a day and night's sleep to recover, but at the valetudinarian the Sisters would watch over her patient while she slept.

The colonial committees successfully organized common resistance to the Tea Act and even recruited physicians who wrote drinking tea would make Americans "weak, effeminate, and valetudinarian for life."

A valetudinarian in later life, he lived in retirement at Pagoda House, Kew Road, Richmond, Surrey, an estate inherited from his father in 1817.

An engaging life of a clever valetudinarian from Britain's upper crust, whose letters from Egypt in 1865 were instrumental in the creation of Britain's interest in that country.

There goes in the world a notion, that the scholar should be a recluse, a valetudinarian, - as unfit for any handiwork or public labor, as a penknife for an axe.

Michael Gambon as Mr. Woodhouse - Mr Woodhouse is described by Austen as a valetudinarian - old before his time.

But if you do use a far-fetched or archaic word like valetudinarian, for example, as Jane Austen did on the first page of Emma, be sure you know why you are using it.

Ferris, whose story "The Valetudinarian" was published in the August 3, 2009, issue of the magazine, talks here with our fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about Saunders's "Adams," the lineage of great satirists, and suburban vigilantism as war allegory.

He lied, too, for the same reason: no republic wants a valetudinarian president.

He wondered if the old man was ill; the valetudinarian tone was unlike him.

Nevertheless, no one ventured to smile, notwithstanding his valetudinarian appearance and his air of affected humility.

Then there was the valetudinarian Mr. Cayley who had gone for a walk all round the garden.

Patrice (Mother): Patrice is the valetudinarian mother of Regan and Liam.

The weary, valetudinarian tone of Flaubert's letter to Louise Colet about the sunsets was not a pose.

In Dostoevsky's Demons (1872) Varvara Petrovna accuses a portly valetudinarian bachelor of being "an old woman" - a verdict she promptly refines to "an old bag".

The Russians were a great people, it said, and "to see them represented by a valetudinarian buffoon and exploited by a corrupt regime after 70 years of totalitarianism fills one with deep sadness."

And more: the moody air of the Spaniard, which at times had not been without a sort of valetudinarian stateliness, now seemed anything but dignified; while the menial familiarity of the servant lost its original charm of simple-hearted attachment.

Remember, though, that since the valetudinarian English gave Pau up the climate has reverted to what it was, so you need to be there on a day of reasonable weather, otherwise the Boulevard will not be tea Pyrénées at all, but only of the closer and less pleasing scene.