ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] In senses of the vb. a. Made slender; shrunken, emaciated. b. Attenuated, rarefied.
a. 1620. Venner, Via Recta, ii. 39. It is … more profitable for loose and extenuated bodies.
1726. Leoni, trans. Alberti’s Archit., I. 5 b. Their Faces become thin and extenuated.
1781. Char., in Ann. Reg., 19/1. The person of Dr. Fothergill was of a delicate, rather of an extenuated make.
1863. Hawthorne, Our Old Home (1879), 76. We … are getting too nervous, haggard, dyspeptic, extenuated.
b. 1661. Boyle, Spring of Air, II. ii. (1662), 33. Calling this extenuated substance a Funiculus.
