Melancholian
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Melancholian is a noun meaning (obsolete) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
Meaning
(obsolete) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
Example Sentences
1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects And hence you may observe in the Modern Stories of our Religious Melancholians, that they commonly pass out of one Passion into another without any manner of Reasoning and Discourse
Word Forms
- melancholians
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include melancholiac, cholerous, splenetic, meicatalecticizant, magirological, affected.
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