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English
Etymology
From Latin tabidus, from tabere ‘waste, melt’.
Pronunciation
Adjective
tabid (comparative more tabid, superlative most tabid)
- (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, page 198:The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients, […]
- 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.