melancholic (melankolik)

and n. [Formerly also melencholick, malencolik; = F. mélan colique = Pr. mel an colic, malencolic = Sp. mel an cólico = Pg. melancolico = It. melancolico, mal in colico (cf. D. G. melankolisch = Sw. melankolisk = Dan. melankolsk ), She thus melancholicke did ride, Chawing the cud of griefe and inward paine. Spenser , F. Q., V. vi. 19. Our melancholic friend, Pro pert i us, Hath closed himself up in his Cynthia's tomb. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iv. 1. To-day you shall have her look as clear and fresh as the morning, and to-morrow as melancholic as midnight. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. 3. Producing melancholy; unfortunate; causing sorrow. The Sea roareth with a dread full noyse; the Windes blowe with a certaine course from thence; the people haue a mel ancho like season, which they pa e away with play. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 485. Disperse these melancholic humours, and become yourself again. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 124. [Archaic in all uses. See melancholy , a .] II. n. 1. One who is affected with mental gloom; a hypochondriac; in pathol . , one who suffers from melancholia; a melancholiac. (As to) the outward parts of their bodies, here brouches, chains, and rings may have good use; with such like ornament of jewel as agreeth with the ability and calling of the melencholicke . Bright , Melancholy, p. 320. Amer . Jour . Psychol ., I. 359. Four normal persons and four melancholics . 21. A gloomy state of mind. My condition is much worse than yours,... and will very well justify the melancholic that, I confe to you, po e es me. Clarendon, Life, ii. ( Latham . ) melancholically (mel-an-koli-kal-i), adv . In a melancholy way. The red town rises out of the red sand, its walls of rammed clay frittering away melancholically in the sun. Harper's Mag., LXXVIII. 767. melancholily Mela not us melancholily (mel'an-kol-i-li), adv. [ mel On a pedestal is set the statue of this young lady, repozing herself in a curious wrought osier chair, ancholily inclining her cheek to the right hand. Кеере , Monuments of Westminster (1683), p. 62. The melancholine (mel'an-kol-i-nes), n. state of being melancholy; disposition to be melancholy or gloomy. When a boy, he [Hobbes] was playsome enough; but with all he had then a contemplative melancholine . Aubrey , Anecdotes, II. 600. melancholious (mel-an-kō'li-us), a. [ malencolious ; as melancholy + -ous.] 1. Melancholy; gloomy. IMG:content-0431.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0432.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. Affected by in spirits; dejected; gloomy. by depre ion of spirits; depre ed Picida , giving name to a subfamily Melaner- IMG:content-0433.jpg:[blocks in formation] A certain music, never known before, Here soothed the pensive melancholy mind. Thomson, Castle of Indolence, i. 40. 4. Producing or fitted to produce sadne or gloom; sad; mournful: as, a melancholy fact; a melancholy event. Their Songs are very melancholy and doleful; so is their Musick: but whether it be natural to the Indians to be thus melancholy, or the effect of their Slavery, I am not Dampier , Voyages, I. 127. 'Tis past, that melancholy dream! Nor will I quit thy shore. certain. Words worth, Poems of the Affections, ix. 5. Grave or gloomy in character; suggestive of melancholy; somber. The house is moderne, and seemes to be the seate of some gentleman, being in a very pleasant though mel an choly place. Evelyn, Diary, Sept. 30, 1644. Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste. Bryant, Thanatopsis. Melancholy euryomia, a beetle, Euryomia melancho- lica. - Melancholy flycatcher, Tyrannus melancholic us. =Syn. 2. Low-spirited, dispirited, unhappy, hypochon- driac, disconsolate, doleful, dismal, sad, downcast. broken, supposing himself of gla . Glanville, E ays, iv. melancholizet (melʼan-kol-īz), v. [ + -ize.] I. in trans. To be or become mel an choly; indulge in gloomy musings. A most incomparable delight it is so to melancholize , and build castles in the air. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 154. II. trans . To make melancholy. That thick cloud you are now enveloped with, of mel an choli zed old Age, and undeserved Adversity. Dr. H. More, Philos. Poems, Epis. Ded. melancholy (mel'an-kol-i), n. and a. [ melincoly , malencolye , colie , merencolie , F. mélancolie = Pr. melancolia =Sp. melancolía = Pg. melancolia = It. melanco lia , mel an conia , mal in conia = D. melankolie = G. mel ancho lie = Dan. Sw. melankoli , melancholia, Gr. μελαγχολία, the condition of having black bile (L. atra bilis ), jaundice, melancholy, madne , IMG:content-0434.png:[blocks in formation] Cle. What is his malady? Cam . Nothing but sad and silent melancholy , Laden with griefs and thoughts, no man knows why neither. Fletcher , Wife for a Month, i. 2. Step. Ay, truly, sir, I am mightily given to melancholy. Mat. Oh, it's your only fine humour, sir; your true mel ancholy breeds your perfect fine wit, sir: I am melancholy myself, divers times, sir, and then do I no more but take pen and paper presently, and overflow you half a score or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting. B. Jonson , Every Man in his Humour, iii. 1. 3. Sober thoughtfulne ; pensivene . [Rare.] Hail, thou Godde , sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Milton, Il Penseroso, 1. 12. 41. Bitterne of feeling; ill nature. And if that she be riche and of parage, Thanne seistow it is a tormentrie To soffren hire pride and hire malencolie . Chaucer, Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 252. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2204. Manly in his malycoly he metes another. ne of any kind. Duke Byron Flows with adust and melancholy choler. Chapman , Byron's Conspiracy, ii. 1. Luther's conference with the devil might be, for aught I know, nothing but a melancholy dream. Chilling worth, Religion of Protestants, Pref. (mel'an-kol-i-this"1), n. A European species of thistle, Cnicus hetero phyllus, once reputed to cure melancholy. Mel an chthonian (mel-angk-thō'ni-an), a.andn. [ II. n. A follower of Me lanch thon in his use of the Aristo tel i an philosophy and in his theological views. The fanatical intolerance of the strict Luther an party against the Calvinists and moderate Luther ans, called after their leader Me lanch thon i ans or Philippists. P. Schaff , in Amer. Cyc., XIV. 246.