Tabid
//ˈtæbid// adj, name
adj, name ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Pertaining to tabes.
"The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients,[…]"
- 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 A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.
Example
More examples"The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients,[…]"
Etymology
From Latin tabidus, from tabere ‘waste, melt’.
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