ta bes

[Lat., from tabeo =to waste away.] Pathol .: A wasting away of the body, however produced. It figured largely in the older writers, but is now limited to the three compounds subjoined. tabes-dorsal is, s. Pathol.: The same as LOCOMOTOR-ATAXY (q. v.). *tabes-glandular is, s. table Thus, the several octaves were called great, little, one and two-line octaves, according to the style of letter employed to indicate them. The name has also been applied to figured ba . The illustration given is from the French and English tablature employed by John Dowl and in his Books of Songes or Ayres (London, 1597-1603), and by most English lutenists. "Well, those who affirm that these devices agree not to the minde of Plato, are yet of opinion, that those other agree very well to the propositions described in the tablature of musicians, which consist eth of five tetrachords."-P. Holland: Plutarch , p. 857.