MELANCHOLIC

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy. Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky. Prior.

2.
n.

One affected with a gloomy state of mind. J. Spenser.

3.
n.

A gloomy state of mind; melancholy. Clarendon.