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From Latin tabidus, from tabere ‘waste, melt’.

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tabid (comparative more tabid, superlative most tabid)

  1. (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
    • 1897, F[rancis] de Havilland Hall, “Lettsomian Lectures: Diseases of the Nose and Throat in Relation to General Medicine”, in Transactions of the Medical Society of London[1], page 198:
      The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients, []
  2. Wasting away, declining.
    • 1765, [Laurence Sterne], chapter XIV, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume VII, London: [] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, [], →OCLC, page 44:
      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.