tabid

comparative more tabid · superlative most tabid

1. medicinePertaining to tabes.

   The term "laryngeal crisis" has been applied to those sudden attacks of dispnœa in tabid patients,[…]

   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, page 198

2. Wasting away, declining.

   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.

   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

1. A barangay of Ozamiz, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.