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tabid
adjective
(
medicine
) Pertaining to tabes.
Wasting away, declining.
1765
: by a gradual and most 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)
Etymology:
From Latin
tabidus
, from
tabere
"waste, melt".
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