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Atrabilious   Listen
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Atrabilious  adj.  Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. "A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race." "He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Atrabilious" Quotes from Famous Books



... more particular inquiry about the symptoms, he was told that the blood was seemingly viscous, and salt upon the tongue; the urine remarkably acrosaline; and the faeces atrabilious and foetid. When the doctor said he would engage to find the same phenomena in every healthy man of the three kingdoms, the apothecary added, that the patient was manifestly comatous, and moreover ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett

... the little maid wrapped herself about his heart. Daily her wondrous love coiled its soft folds tighter around him, squeezing from his atrabilious soul, drop by drop, its sad taciturnity and inherent morbidness, that it might later fill his empty life with a spiritual richness which ...
— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

... plans of Lorenzo, who wished to secure the same advantages for Florence. Smarting with the sense of disappointment, he forbade the Roman banker, Francesco Pazzi, to guarantee the purchase-money. By this act Lorenzo made two mortal foes—the Pope and Francesco Pazzi. Francesco was a thin, pale, atrabilious fanatic, all nerve and passion, with a monomaniac intensity of purpose, and a will inflamed and guided by imagination—a man formed by nature for conspiracy, such a man, in fact, as Shakspere drew in Cassius. Maddened by Lorenzo's prohibition, he conceived ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds



Words linked to "Atrabilious" :   ill-natured, dyspeptic



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