tabe

[Lat. tabes.) A wasting away; tabes. "A tabe and a consumption."- Adams: Works, i. 191. tā-bě-făc-tion, s. [Lat. tabefactio.] [TABEFY.] The act or state of wasting away. *ta-be-fy, *tab-e-fỹ, v . t . [Lat. tabefio , from tabes wasting away, and facio to make.] To waste away; to cause to waste or consume away; to emaciate. "Meat eaten in greater quantity than is convenient tabefies the body." -Harvey: On Consumptions. ta-běl-li-ôn, s . [ Lat.tabellio , from tabella =a tablet, dim in. from tabula =a table (q. v.).] A kind of secretary or notary; a scrivener. (Such a functionary existed under the Roman Empire, and during the old monarchy in France.) tā-běr, v. i. [TABOR, v .] tăb-erd, s . [TABARD.]