† aˈffeeble, v. Obs.
[a. OFr. afebli-er (also afebl-ir), f. à to + febli-er to weaken, f. fieble, now faible, feeble.]
To weaken, enfeeble.
| 1480 Caxton Ovid's Metam. xii. xiv, Thou hast this daye overmoch grevyd and affeebled my peple. c 1534 tr. Polyd. Verg., Eng. Hist. II. 68 Which affeebled no litle the force of Englande. 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 88 For euer to affeeble the repaires and for to abash us..day and night they ceased not to shoot great artillery. |