Melancholic

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

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