(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:40:52

Flac"cid (?), a. [L. flaccidus, fr. flaccus flabby: cf. OF. flaccide.]

Yielding to pressure for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh.

Religious profession . . . has become flacced. I. Taylor.

-- Flac"cid*ly (#), adv. -- Flac"cid*ness, n.

 

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