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Webster 1913 Edition


Tabid

Tab′id

,
Adj.
[L.
tabidus
: cf. F.
tabide
. See
Tabes
.]
(Med.)
Affected by tabes; tabetic.
In
tabid
persons, milk is the bset restorative.
Arbuthnot.
Tab′id-ly
,
adv.
Tab′id-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Tabid

TAB'ID

,
Adj.
[L. tabidus, from tabeo, to waste.] Wasted by disease; consumptive.
In tabid persons, milk is the best restorative.

Definition 2024


tabid

tabid

English

Adjective

tabid (comparative more tabid, superlative most tabid)

  1. (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
  2. Wasting away, declining.
    • 1765: 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. — Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol. 7 (Penguin 2003, p. 445)