tabid

tabid
adjective /ˈtæbid/
a) Pertaining to tabes.

, 1765: by a gradual and most tabid decline, in a course of eighteen hundred years, they must unavoidably have shrunk, so as to have come, when he wrote, almost to nothing. — Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol. 7 (Penguin 2003, p. 445)

b) Wasting away, declining.

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  • Tabid — Tab id, a. [L. tabidus: cf. F. tabide. See {Tabes}.] (Med.) Affected by tabes; tabetic. [1913 Webster] In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] {Tab id*ly}, adv. {Tab id*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • tabid — index dilapidated Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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  • tabid — SYN: tabetic. [L. tabidus, wasting away] * * * tab·id tab əd adj TABETIC …   Medical dictionary

  • Tabid — Lidende af tæring …   Danske encyklopædi

  • tabid — a. Consumptive, phthisical …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • tabid — tab·id …   English syllables

  • tabid — ˈtabə̇d adjective Etymology: Latin tabidus, from tabēre to waste away, melt more at thaw archaic : tabetic …   Useful english dictionary

  • Tabidly — Tabid Tab id, a. [L. tabidus: cf. F. tabide. See {Tabes}.] (Med.) Affected by tabes; tabetic. [1913 Webster] In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] {Tab id*ly}, adv. {Tab id*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Tabidness — Tabid Tab id, a. [L. tabidus: cf. F. tabide. See {Tabes}.] (Med.) Affected by tabes; tabetic. [1913 Webster] In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] {Tab id*ly}, adv. {Tab id*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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