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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

tabescens

wasting, p. pr. of

tabescere

Withering, or wasting away.

tabescent ‎(comparative more tabescent, superlative most tabescent)

Wasting away, or becoming emaciated. [from 19th c.]
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 42:
  He is weak and stinking, tabescent, at the far edge of hope.

tābēscent