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† aˈffeeble, v. Obs.
[a. OFr. afebli-er (also afebl-ir), f. à to + febli-er to weaken, f. fieble, now faible, feeble.]
To weaken, enfeeble.
1480Caxton Ovid's Metam. xii. xiv, Thou hast this daye overmoch grevyd and affeebled my peple. c1534tr. Polyd. Verg., Eng. Hist. II. 68 Which affeebled no litle the force of Englande. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 88 For euer to affeeble the repaires and for to abash us..day and night they ceased not to shoot great artillery. |