Melancholize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Melancholize is a verb meaning (obsolete, transitive) To make melancholy.
Meaning
(obsolete, transitive) To make melancholy.
More Meanings
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be melancholy; to be consumed by sad thoughts.
Example Sentences
if we be not otherwise well employed, we shall be apt, in our thoughts, to melancholize, and dote upon our mischances.
Many men […] are ſo deiected many times for ſome publike iniury, […] that they dare not come abroad all their liues after, but melancholiſe in corners, and keepe in holes.
Word Forms
- melancholizes
- melancholizing
- melancholized
- melancholise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dismalize, maudlinize, darken, oppress, dismalise, gloom.
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