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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

attenuatus

, p. p.]

Made thin or slender.

Made thin or less viscid; rarefied.

Bacon.

ppr.

Made thin or less viscid; comminuted; made slender. In botany, growing slender towards the point.

attenuated

attenuated ‎(comparative more attenuated, superlative most attenuated)

Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
- Charles Lamb, The Essays of Elia
  He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
- 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter XI, page 140:
  She had become spiritualized in mind, even as she had grown attenuated in person.
(botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)