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tabid - What does it mean?

Definition of 'tabid'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (medicine) Pertaining to tabes.
  • 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)