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Melancholic


MEL'ANCHOLIC, adjective [See Melancholy.]

1. Depressed in spirits; affected with gloom; dejected; hypochondriac. Grief indulged to excess, has a tendency to render a person melancholic

2. Produced by melancholy; expressive of melancholy; mournful; as melancholic strains.

Just as the melancholic eye,

Sees fleets and armies in the sky.

3. Unhappy; unfortunate; causing sorrow; as accidents and melancholic perplexities.

MEL'ANCHOLIC, noun One affected with a gloomy state of mind. [Melancholian, in a like sense, is not used.]

1. A gloomy state of mind.