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adjective
- (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
- Wasting away, declining.
- 1765: by a gradual and most 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)
Etymology: From Latin tabidus, from tabere "waste, melt".
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