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flaccid, a.|ˈflæksɪd|
Also 7 flaccide, (8 flacid).
[a. F. flaccide (Cotgr.), ad. L. flaccidus, f. flaccus flabby.]
1. Wanting in stiffness, hanging or lying loose or in wrinkles; limber, limp; flabby. Chiefly of flesh and similar structures: rarely of a person.
1620Venner Via Recta v. 87 The one it maketh flaccide, and the other subiect to putrefaction. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. iv. 46 The sides of the Bladder grew flaccid. 1704F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1711) 32 Yet are the Muscles not Flaccid, but Tense and Firm. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 117 ⁋8 The flaccid sides of a football. 1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs Wks. IX. 385 His double chin over his flaccid whitey-brown shirt collar. 1848― Van. Fair lxi, The flaccid children within. 1879Froude Cæsar xv. 234 His hair moist, his eyes heavy, his cheeks flaccid.
b. Of vegetable organs and tissues: Bending without elasticity, also, relaxed from want of moisture; drooping.
1626Bacon Sylva §493 The part, against which the Sun beateth, waxeth more faint and flaccide in the Stalk, and thereby less able to support the Flower. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 233 Stem flaccid, rough with strong hairs. 1875Darwin Insectiv. Pl. ix. 226 The leaf being flaccid and apparently dead. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 675 The current of water also ceases as soon as the tissues which have become somewhat flaccid are again turgescent.
2. Of immaterial things: Wanting vigour and nervous energy, limp, feeble.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xli, What's dull or flaccid, nought illustrative. 1855Tennyson Maud i. i. 20 A scheme that had left us flaccid and drain'd. 1875Farrar Silence & V. viii. 140 It is because his resolutions have been feeble, and his purposes flaccid.
Hence ˈflaccidly adv., in a flaccid manner; ˈflaccidness, the state of being flaccid, flaccidity.
1727Bailey vol. II, Flaccidness. 1847Craig, Flaccidly. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 238 The flaccidness of the tissues. 1883R. Broughton Belinda I. i. xii. 218 Belinda has thrown herself flaccidly into a chair. |