单词 | melancholiac |
释义 | melancholiacn.adj. Medicine. A. n. A person suffering from or prone to melancholia or depression. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > melancholia > person melancholist1600 hypochondriac1639 melancholico1652 hypochondriacal1694 hypochondrist1803 hypochondriast1809 melancholiac1863 melancholic1870 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash III. 100 In short, she gave them the impression that Alfred was a moping melancholiac. 1897 Dict. National Biogr. LII. 320/2 Separating the insane into groups of maniacs, melancholiacs, and so on. 1941 Mod. Lang. Notes 56 438 Giovanni, in 'Tis Pity, exemplifies the religious melancholiac. 1980 P. O'Brian Surgeon's Mate vii. 201 Gothenburg..inhabited by tall spare melancholiacs dressed in grey wool. 1991 M. Wharton Dubious Codicil viii. 256 Kee, a state-registered melancholiac like myself. B. adj. Suffering from melancholia; depressive; melancholic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > melancholic melancholya1393 hypochondrical1586 hypochondriac1599 sullen-sick1614 hypochondriacal1620 mirachial1621 hypochondriatic1658 hipped1712 melancholic1809 hypochondric1871 melancholiac1906 1906 N.E.D. Melancholiac, adj. affected with melancholia. 1924 Jrnl. Philos. 21 519 Ever since Magnan's important studies in psychiatry, alienists are increasingly prone to lay stress upon depressive or melancholiac as contrasted with exalted states of consciousness. 1994 Representations Autumn 42 The narrative, however formally shaped by spiritual allegory, returns to human losses and to the melancholiac recapitulations of grief. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1863 |
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