This melancholy flatters, but unmans you Įditors Contribution (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: He protested unto them, that he had only been to seek solitary places by an extreme melancholy that had possessed him.Īll these gifts come from him and if we murmur here, we may at the next melancholy be troubled that God did not make us angels. I have neither the scholar’s melancholy, which is emulation nor the musician’s, which is fantastical nor the courtier’s, which is proud nor the soldier’s, which is ambitious nor the lawyer’s, which is politick nor the lady’s, which is nice nor the lover’s, which is all these but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness. A kindness of madness, in which the mind is always fixed on one object. He observes Lamech more melancholy than usual, and imagines it to be from a suspicion he has of his wife Adah, whom he loved.ġ.A disease, supposed to proceed from a redundance of black bile but it is better known to arise from too heavy and too viscid blood: its cure is in evacuation, nervous medicines, and powerful stimuli. How now, sweet Frank art thou melancholy. Diseased with melancholy fanciful habitually dejected.
Yet mine shall sacred last, mine undecay’d,īurn on through death, and animate my shade.Īlexander Pope. The flames of friends and lovers cease to glow
Gloomy dismal.īut as some melancholy dream, which has awak’d us Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: melancolique, French.
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