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Tabid

//ˈtæbid// adj, name

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to tabes.

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

  2. 2
    Wasting away, declining.

    "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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.

Etymology

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

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