tabid

English

Etymology

From Latin tabidus, from tabere ‘waste, melt’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæbid/

Adjective

tabid (comparative more tabid, superlative most tabid)

1. (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
   • 1897, F[rancis] de Havilland Hall, “Lettsomian Lectures: Diseases of the Nose and Throat in Relation to General Medicine”, in Transactions of the Medical Society of London‎^[1], page 198:

     The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients, […]

2. Wasting away, declining.
   • 1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VII, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 44:

     he certainly muſt have gone upon ſome of the old Roman ſouls, of which he had read, without reflecting how much, 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.