v. Obs. [a. OFr. afebli-er (also afebl-ir), f. à to + febli-er to weaken, f. fieble, now faible, FEEBLE.] To weaken, enfeeble.
1480. Caxton, Ovid’s Metam., XII. xiv. Thou hast this daye overmoch grevyd and affeebled my peple.
c. 1534. trans. Polyd. Verg., Eng. Hist., II. 68. Which affeebled no litle the force of Englande.
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. I. 88. For euer to affeeble the repaires and for to abash us … day and night they ceased not to shoot great artillery.
