Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is affected with melancholia; a melancholiac.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One affected with melancholy or dejection.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One affected with
melancholy ordejection .
Etymologies
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melancholy + -ist
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Examples
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He was a perfect Saudawi (melancholist) in mind, manners, and personal appearance, and this class of humanity in the East is almost as uncomfortable to the household as the idiot of Europe.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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This class of men in stories takes the place of our "cunning idiot," and is often confounded with the Saudáwi, the melancholist proper.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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[Footnote 1: It is now pretty certainly established that this melancholist committed suicide.] p. 265 _Dalton's Country-Justice.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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