a. rare. [ad. L. tābific-us, f. TABES: see -FIC. Cf. mod.F. tabifique (Littré).] Causing tabes; consumptive, emaciating, wasting.
1669. Address to Hopeful Young Gentry England, 13–4. So near to nothing do they shrink, whose souls languish under the irreparable decays of tabific inactivity.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XIV. 492. The Tabifick Matter deposited in the Lungs [in Phthisis].
1774. T. West, Antiq. Furness, p. xvii. The younger sort amongst the fair sex … have been carried off by tabific complaints.
