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▪ I. tabid, a. Now rare.|ˈtæbɪd|
[ad. L. tābidus wasting, declining, f. tābēre to waste: see -id. Perh. through F. tabide (1545 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Path. Affected with tabes; wasted by disease; consumptive; marcid. Also fig.
1651Biggs New Disp. §232 Whosoever within fourty daies are not perfectly cured, grow tabid. 1672Sir T. Browne Let. Friend §20 Consumptive and tabid Roots sprout more early. 1713W. Cheselden in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 281 A Man, who died Hydropic and Tabid. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 88 Sinking..into a premature and tabid old age. 1914C. Mackenzie Sinister St. II. iv. v. 964 He was disappointed to see no cab..merely a tabid woman clothed in a cobweb of crape, asleep over her tray of matches. 1947M. Lowry Under Volcano ii. 58 Outside..in the backwash of tabid music from the still-continuing ball.
†2. Corrupted, decomposed. Obs.
1650Bulwer Anthropomet. i. (1653) 24 All other Creatures were produced from the tabid Carcasses by the Celestiall influx without seed. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 91 These, kept in a moyst place, become tabid.
3. Causing consumption, wasting, or decline.
1671R. Bohun Wind 140 Dry and tabid mists, which corrupt the lungs. 1895Quiller Couch Wand. Heath 92 The tabid Curse Brooded over Pelops' hearse.
4. Of the nature or character of tabes; characterized by wasting away.
1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 136 A simple tabid fever is not so dangerous as a suppurative one. 1765Sterne Tr. Shandy VII. xiv, A gradual and most tabid decline. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 92 The salacity of age.. often wears away the hoary frame to the last stage of a tabid decline.
Hence ˈtabidly adv., in a tabid manner, consumptively; ˈtabidness, emaciation, tabes.
1672Sir T. Browne Let. Friend §4 He that is *tabidly inclined were unwise to pass his days in Portugal.
1668Phil. Trans. III. 699 How it [Sugar] intenerates the flesh, and disposeth to *tabidness. 1700C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lanc. ii. ii. §2. 62 A tabidness of the Flesh, hot and cold fits alternately succeeding.
▪ II. † ˈtabid, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec.]
trans. To make tabid or consumptive; = tabefy 1.
1661Feltham Resolves ii. lxxxv. 374 Slender Hairs..as nets to catch the dust and moats, which..we should else draw in, and tabid all our Lungs. |