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Definition of Melancholiac
1. Noun. Someone subject to melancholia.
Definition of Melancholiac
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melancholiac
Literary usage of Melancholiac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mind and Its Disorders: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by William Henry Butter Stoddart (1908)
"melancholiac GAIT. Melancholia may be said to have become chronic when ...
Such cases should be designated ' melancholiac secondary delusional insanity'. ..."
2. The Clinical Journal (1899)
"The melancholiac has many physical signs. For instance, the breasts cease ...
From one point of view the melancholiac may be regarded as a very dry person ..."
3. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1906)
"The effect of this abnormal fear upon the melancholiac does not differ, except
in the period of time involved, from the effect ..."
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