Obs. [ad. L. tābēs (see TABES) or tābum corruption, infectious or pestilent disease.] Gradual wasting away; = TABES.
1614. T. Adams, Fatal Banquet, II. Wks. 1861, I. 191. They put a pleurisy into their bloods, a tabe, and consumption into their states. Ibid. (1633), Exp. 2. Peter ii. w. He doth work a tabe and consumption into his fellows’ virtues.
