Val`e*tu`di*na"ri*an (?), a. [L. valetudinarius, from valetudo state of health, health, ill health, fr. valere to be strong or well: cf. F. val'etudinaire. See Valiant.]
Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
My feeble health and valetudinarian stomach.
Coleridge.
The virtue which the world wants is a healthful virtue, not a valetudinarian virtue.
Macaulay.
© Webster 1913.
Val`e*tu`di*na"ri*an, n.
A person of a weak or sickly constitution; one who is seeking to recover health.
Valetudinarians must live where they can command and scold.
Swift.
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