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==Origin==
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''consumpcioun'', from [[Latin]] ''consumption''-, ''consumptio'', from ''consumere''. Wasting of the [[body]] (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman in a [[medical]] [[context]]; this sense is apparently not paralleled in continental French until much later (1559)), dissipation or reduction of moisture by [[evaporation]] (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman in a [[medical]] [[context]]; this sense is apparently not paralleled in continental French until later (1380)), destruction (late 13th cent. in Old French), wasting [[disease]], especially pulmonary tuberculosis (a1365), in Anglo-Norman also [[act]] of consuming ([[food]] or drink). In post-classical Latin also destruction (Vulgate), [[death]] (5th cent. in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine Augustine])
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''consumpcioun'', from [[Latin]] ''consumption''-, ''consumptio'', from ''consumere''. Wasting of the [[body]] (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman in a [[medical]] [[context]]; this sense is apparently not paralleled in continental French until much later (1559)), dissipation or reduction of moisture by [[evaporation]] (13th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman in a [[medical]] [[context]]; this sense is apparently not paralleled in continental French until later (1380)), destruction (late 13th cent. in Old French), wasting [[disease]], especially pulmonary tuberculosis (a1365), in Anglo-Norman also [[act]] of consuming ([[food]] or drink). In post-classical Latin also destruction (Vulgate), [[death]] (5th cent. in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine Augustine])
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 14th_century 14th Centuty]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
==Definitions==
*1a : a [[progressive]] wasting away of the [[body]] especially from pulmonary tuberculosis
*1a : a [[progressive]] wasting away of the [[body]] especially from pulmonary tuberculosis