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† spleˈnetical, a. and n. Obs.
[f. prec.]
A. adj.
1. = splenetic a. 1.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 162/1 [A prescription] For Spleneticalle dolour. a1639Wotton Reliq. (1651) 488, I have received much benefit..touching my spleneticall Infirmity. 1694Westmacott Script. Herb. 13 Wild-Ash..will yield a Liquor highly commended in Scorbutical and Splenetical Affects. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 72. 2/1 Splenetical and Hypocondriacal Distempers.
2. Disposed to mirth. (Cf. spleen n. 1 c.)
a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 185 Splenetical Democritus did make His lungs with a perpetual laughter shake.
B. n. = splenetic n. 2.
1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xv. 358 Spleneticals are such things as are appropriated to the Spleen, the seat of Melancholly. |