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adjective

Infirm adj.

Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution. "A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man."

Weak of mind or will; irresolute; vacillating. "An infirm judgment." "Infirm of purpose!"

Not solid or stable; insecure; precarious. "He who fixes on false principles treads or infirm ground."

Synonyms: Debilitated; sickly; feeble; decrepit; weak; enfeebled; irresolute; vacillating; imbecile.

verb

Infirm v. t. To weaken; to enfeeble. (Obs.)

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"Infirm" Quotes from Famous Books

... met, Attalus first rose to speak, and he began his discourse with a recital of the kindnesses conferred by his ancestors and himself on the Greeks in general, and on the Boeotians in particular. But, being now too old and infirm to bear the exertion of speaking in public, he lost his voice and fell; and for some time, while they were carrying him to his apartments, (for he was deprived of the use of one half of his limbs,) the proceedings of the assembly were for a short time suspended. Then Aristaenus spoke ...

— History of Rome, Vol III • Titus Livius

... load too heavy for her to raise to her head without the assistance of another. Like all the poor, they are always obliging to each other, and I recently witnessed a pathetic sight at one of these village watering-places, when an old woman, too infirm to carry her "balass" herself, was with difficulty struggling down the bank and leading a blind man, who bore her burden ...

— Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt • R. Talbot Kelly

... from the Citadel Square. Even the personal attendants upon Dom Gillian were affected by the panic, and leaped over the guard-rails of the platform into the mass of humanity below. In half a score of minutes the enormous square was deserted save for a few infirm and crippled stragglers, and Constans himself thought it prudent to withdraw to the shelter of one of the guard-huts from whose doorway he could still ...

— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen

... loaded with irons, into a ship, stripped and very ill treated, without being allowed any appeal to justice. . . . I was twenty-eight years old when I came into your highnesses' service, and now I have not a hair upon me that is not gray; my body is infirm, and all that was left to me, as well as to my brothers, has been taken away and sold, even to the frock that I wore, to my great dishonor. . . . I implore your highnesses to forgive my complaints. I am, indeed, in as ruined a condition as I have related; ...

— Ten Great Events in History • James Johonnot

... his years, then? He's not infirm? no rheumatism or anything of that sort—strong on ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

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