melancholic

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The nearest equivalent of melancholic is melancholiek, but we also have the word zwartgallig ` with black bile. '

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  1. adjective Affected with or subject to melancholy.
  2. adjective Of or relating to melancholia.

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  • In her stead he has got a fantastic, melancholic, ill-natured Stepmother, with whom there was never any good to be done; who in fact is now fairly mad, and kept to her own apartments. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Loudon, hot of temper, melancholic, shy, is not a man to recommend himself to Kriegshofrath people; but no doubt Imperial Majesty has had her own wise eye on him. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • The fellow put a child to death; if he were a soldier, you would execute him without priest; and because this CANAILLE is a citizen, you make him 'melancholic' to get him off. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • The nearest equivalent of melancholic is melancholiek, but we also have the word zwartgallig ` with black bile. ' —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2
  • And she was, if more temperamental and less insightful, almost as intelligent. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
 

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  1. Formerly also melencholick, malencolik; = French mélancolique = Provencal melancolic, malencolic = Spanish melancólico = Portuguese melancolico = Italian melancolico, malincolico (cf. D. G. melankolisch = Swedish melankolisk = Danish melankolsk), from Latin melancholicus, from Greek μελαγχολικός, having black bile, from μελαγχολία, black bile, melancholy: see melancholy.
 

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