rachitic

From rachitis +‎ -ic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹəˈkɪtɪk/

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rachitic (comparative more rachitic, superlative most rachitic)

1. (medicine) Pertaining to or affected by rickets. [from 18th c.]
   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 761:

     Nor was there time to do much more than distribute some sweet to the pallid rachitic children.

2. Feeble, in a weak or precarious condition. [from 19th c.]
   • 1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay:

     a tall, narrow-shouldered and rachitic house in a little obscure square.

   • December 8 1947, "FOREIGN EXCHANGE: Bold Gamble" Time Magazine

     nations with over-valued rachitic currencies

   • 1983 [1981], John Crowley, “The Fairies' Parliment”, in Little, Big, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 576:

     Even as he thought this he saw, leaping from the last stair of a rachitic escalator, down there, a blond girl in a blue dress, bright in the brown darkness.

• rachitic pelvis
• rachitic rosary
• scrofulo-rachitic

• atrichic