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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

tabidus

: cf. F.

tabide

. See

(Med.)

Affected by tabes; tabetic.

tabid

persons, milk is the bset restorative.

Arbuthnot.

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Tab′id-ly

adv.

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Tab′id-ness

Noun.

Adj.

[L. tabidus, from tabeo, to waste.] Wasted by disease; consumptive.

In tabid persons, milk is the best restorative.

tabid ‎(comparative more tabid, superlative most tabid)

(medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
Wasting away, declining.
- 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)