ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Made lean, atrophied. Also fig.

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1665.  Phil. Trans., I. 87. The whole Body was bloudless, thin and emaciated.

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1713.  Cheselden, Anat., I. i. (1726), 6. The emaciated bone weighed thirty grains less than half the weight of the other.

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1777.  J. Howard, Prisons Eng. (1780), 5. Many who went in healthy, are in a few months changed to emaciated dejected objects.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 403. The emaciated corpse was laid, with all privacy, next to the corpse of Monmouth in the chapel of the Tower.

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1880.  Max Müller, Ess., I. 363. The prose of our traditional and emaciated speech.

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