Middle English Dictionary Entry
malancolient adj.
Entry Info
Forms | malancolient adj. Also (error) malycolient. |
Etymology | OF malencolient, ppl. of melancoliier. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. malencolien.
1.
Full of black bile.
Associated quotations
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)84/15 : Þe splene is to feble to purge þe malancolient blood.
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)93/2 : He comeþ of a wounde yuel heelid, to whom comeþ a malancolient [vr. malycolient] mater rotid.