tabefacere

tabefacere [LL] 1 to cause (body or part of body) to waste away or decay (as result of disease, mortification, or death). b (absol.) to cause physical decay or decline. c (transf.) to weaken (mind or spirit), to cause to become dispirited. ferentes in grabato juvenem, longae aegritudinis acerbitate ~tum Bede CuthbP 32; miraculo ‥ ducitur posse cadaver exanimari et non posse tabefieri W. Malm. GR II 165; diuturno morbo ante mortem ~tus Id. GP II 83; assiduis ‥ vigiliis corpus ~ere; quotidianis laboribus carnem affligere Ailr. Spec. Car. II 5. 549C; patrem suum deprehendit nimia macie et horrido squalore per omnes artus ~tum Coggesh. Visio 32; vigilia honestatis ~iet carnes AncrR 46; it is a straunge syght to se ‥ ye grystell of ye nose consumed away, aspectu mirandum est ‥ cartilaginem nasorum ~tam vel tabidam Whittington Vulg. 69. b dicimus omne temporale pati aliquid sub tempore quia ~it tempus et senescunt omnia sub tempore Siccav. PN 165. c hoc verbo a rege audito, corda omnium ~ta sunt ‥ timentes ‥ illius fortitudinem (Declanus 1) VSH II 33; 1359 temporis discontinuacio animum suum [sc. erga labores scolasticos] nimis tabefecit sed ‥ fervencior diligencia ‥ departita restaurabit Lit. Cant. II 387. 2 to mark and spoil the appearance of, stain, disfigure; b (transf.). c (fig., of sin) to corrupt, defile. psalterium ‥ lapsorum luminum cruore ~tum M. Par. Maj. I 373. b nonnulli calculosi seu ~ti pustulis V. Edm. Rich P 1821C. c mentem ‥ non libido commaculat, non ira dilaniat ‥ non dejicit tristitia, non invidia ~it Ailr. Spec. Car. I 17. 520D; tam fama quam consciencia ~ta sceleribus R. Bury Phil. 4. 52.

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