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melancholious, a. Now rare.|mɛlənˈkəʊlɪəs|
Forms: 4–5 malan-, malencolious, -ius, malen-, melancolyous(e, (5 malencolyows, malecoliowus), 5–6 malincolyous, 6 malacolious, melancolyouse, -colius, melencolous, 7 Sc. melancholiows, 4–7 melancolious, 6– melancholious.
[a. OF. melancolieus, f. melancolie melancholy: see -ous.]
1. Constitutionally inclined to melancholy; † atrabilious in constitution (obs.); affected with melancholy, gloomy. Also, of sounds, etc.: Expressive or suggestive of melancholy.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 215 Whanne þei ben out of reson as wroþ & malencolious. c1384Chaucer H. Fame i. 30 Somme man is to curiouse In studye, or melancolyouse. 1433Lydg. St. Edmund 465 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. N.F. (1884) 405 Malencolius of face, look and cheer. 1471Caxton Recuyell (ed. Sommer) 24 Sorowfull syghes and melancolyous fantasies. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccxlvi. 547 This pope..was a fumisshe man and malincolyous. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 816 Whether it were by the inspiracion of the holy ghost, or by Melencolous disposition, I had diuers and sundrie imaginations howe [etc.]. 1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick i. xxviii. (1639) 45 They that be melancholious have strange imaginations. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 368 The King was sad and melancolious. 1783Burns Poor Mailie's Elegy 8 Come, join the melancholious croon O' Robin's reed! 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xi, The Rector..added, in a melancholious tone [etc.]. 1897Crockett Lads' Love iii. 31 The sufferer..from whom .. most melancholious sounds .. continually proceeded.
†2. Tending to cause, or of the nature of, ‘melancholy’ or atrabilious disorder. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 171 Þoruȝ þat oon pore he drawiþ malancolious blood of þe lyuere. Ibid. 273 Varicosa schal be curid..wiþ purgaciouns of malancholious blood. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 76 The tane [star or planet] is sangwyne, the tothir is malancolius. 1562W. Bullein Bulwark, Bk. Simples 78 b, It bredeth choler adust, and melancholious diseases.
Hence melanˈcholiousness.
1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick i. xxviii. (1639) 45 There be three diversities of melancholiousnes, according to the three kinds of causes. |