Their action may be explained as producing a congestion or as enfeebling the opposition of physiological tissues to pathological growths.
Nothing can be worse managed than the French Verb; which, though it possesses a competent variety of personal inflections, yet loses all the benefit of them by the perpetual enfeebling recurrence of the personal Pronouns.
Has not this remission or suppression of the articulations the effect of enfeebling the speech, by mollifying its bones and relaxing its nerves?
Chronic diseases of the lungs and heart, by enfeebling the muscular movements which take part in defecation, as well as by the general feebleness and the chronic intestinal catarrh and indigestion which they create, are causes of constipation.
Sedentary life, by enfeebling muscular movement and by inducing indigestion and constipation, brings on diarrhoea.
On the simple ground of the enfeebling of the male intellect, I rest this humble appeal to the highest Authorities to reconsider the regulations of Female education.
On the simple ground of the enfeebling of the Male intellect, I rest this humble appeal to the highest Authorities to reconsider the regulations of Female Education.
The plan proceeds expressly on the idea of enfeebling the regular executory power.
Beddoes pointed out the dangers attendant upon the social and medical use of intoxicating drinks, laying stress upon "The enfeebling power of small portions of wine regularly drunk.
Alcohol is the pathological fraud of frauds, degenerating while it claims to be reconstructing, enfeebling while it appears to be invigorating, destroying vitality while it professes to infuse new life.
His constant labors and hardships, and his occasional perils have preserved him from that enfeeblingmelancholy which often infects sensitive spirits upon whom has beaten a storm of trouble.
Mediaevalism can hardly be called anything but a rather enfeebling dream.
Perhaps enough has been said to indicate the relaxing and enfeeblingtendencies of this region of the brain.
Age abates the vigor of the executive faculties, and old people manifest not only bodily infirmities, but the relaxing and enfeebling influences proceeding from the lower portions of the brain.
Stagnant and enfeeblingpeace conditions" is, in view of subsequent events, distinctly good.
Spending many years abroad, he has come to understand other nationalities, without enfeebling his own native faith.
The novel is not strictly limited, as the play must be by the practical necessities of the theater; and the practitioners of the art of fiction permit themselves a license of structure which cannot but be enfeebling to the artists themselves.
Professor Mahaffy has suggested that the decay of genius may be traced to the enfeebling facilities of our complex civilization.
But the horrors of peace, if not so obvious, come nearer to our daily life, and we are naturally terrified at its softness, its monotony, and its enfeebling relaxation.
In this respect she had done injustice to his mind, which had been kept in subjection and deprived of its ordinary strength and courage, by the enfeebling fondness of his heart.
My second failure was a more enfeeblingdisaster than the first.
First, because it is more lasting, and there is less hope to escape from it; and, second, because every commonwealth seeks to add to its own strength by weakening and enfeebling all beside.
For the weakness of the present race of men (the result of their enfeebling education and their ignorance of affairs), makes them regard the methods followed by the ancients as partly inhuman and partly impracticable.
Its activity is often developed and exercised at the expense of the will, by diminishing and enfeebling the power and influence of the latter.
It is true that very often the enfeebling of this great faculty is due to the excessive tenderness of those who have allowed us to contract pernicious habits.
This thought enfolded his heart in cold tedium, his body in enfeebling languor.
Thus, when peace was established, germs of enfeebling discord soon appeared among them.
Nevertheless the popular class was less opposed than others to the plan, discerning in it a possible means of enfeebling the magnates by promoting fresh discord in their ranks.
Stagnant and enfeebling peace conditions" is, in view of subsequent events distinctly good.
He saw that possession generates artificial and enfeebling wants, overlaying and smothering the God-given necessities of our nature, whence alone issue golden hopes and manly endeavors.
It feeds poetic fountains of plentiful yield, but insipid and enfeebling flow, the mere sweat of weakness under the stimulus of self-admiration.
Alarmed by the dangers of the new principle, as they often and justly are, they find that the presence of prescription, instead of diminishing the dangers, adds another and a peculiarly enfeeblingone to those which existed before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enfeebling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: draining; exhausting; fatiguing; grueling; trying; weakening
