Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of splenitive.

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Examples

  • And were it not to avoyde taxation, of a spleenitive desire to be revenged, like the dog being bitten, biteth againe: I could command our to morrows conference, to touch mens treacheries towards their wives.

    The Decameron 2004

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