Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or condition of being macilent; leanness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Leanness.
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- noun archaic
leanness
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Gellius are assigned as the causes of his macilency, Gellius being an adulterer of the most infamous kind.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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