† melancholiantadj.
Medieval Medicine. Obsolete. rare.
Of blood: containing black bile.
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cholerica1398
melancholianta1400
gallish1551
melancholical1559
melancholish1562
cholerical1569
cholerous1583
atrabilar1597
melancholic1598
atrabilaric1620
melancholeric1650
atrabilious1651
bilious1651
atrabilary1676
atrabilarian1678
atrabilous1681
atrabilarious1684
atrabiliary1725
biliary1837
acholic1866
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 84 (MED) Þe splene is to feble to purge þe malancolient blood.
a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 93/2 (MED) He comeþ of a wounde yuel heelid, to whom comeþ a malancolient [v.r. malycolient] mater rotid.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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