v. t.
Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.
adj. same as debilitated, 2.
n. The act of weakening; enervation; weakness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
Carried all the feeble of them upon asses. 2 Chron. xxviii. 15. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To make feble; to enfeeble. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Shall that victorious hand be feebled here? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Weak in intellectual power; wanting firmness or constancy; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile. “comfort the feeble-minded.” 1 Thess. v. 14.
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n. severe mental deficiency.
n. The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. [ 1913 Webster ]
That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From Feeble, a character in the Second Part of Shakespeare's “King Henry IV., ” to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet “forcible.” ] Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. [ 1913 Webster ]
He [ Prof. Ayton ] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. See Enfeeble. [ 1913 Webster ]