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melancholize, v. Now rare or Obs.|ˈmɛlənkəˌlaɪz|
[f. melancholy + -ize.]
1. intr. and refl. To be or become melancholy.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 52/2 They doe so melancholize themselves therin, that they doe wholy neglect themselves. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. vi. 134 They dare not come abroad all their liues after, but melancholize in corners. 1794Coleridge Let. 22 July in Biog. Lit. (1847) II. 339 From Oxford..have I journeyed, now philosophizing with hacks, now melancholizing by myself. 1801Lamb Ess., Cur. Fragm. [imitating Burton] ii. in John Woodvil, etc. (1802) 119 Melancholising in woods where waters are. 1863K. H. Digby Chapel St. John (ed. 2) 395 Others were melancholizing in woods, and sighing in gardens.
2. trans. To make melancholy.
1642H. More Song of Soul i. iii. xl, Like faithlesse wife that..Doth inly deep the spright melancholize Of her aggrieved husband. 1668― Div. Dial. ii. xiv. (1713) 129 There's nothing does more contristate and melancholize my Spirit than any reflexions upon such Objects.
Hence ˈmelanchoˌlized ppl. a., rendered melancholy; ˈmelanchoˌlizing vbl. n.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democr. to Rdr. 7 They get their knowledge by bookes, I mine by melancholising. 1642H. More Song of Soul Ded., Nor can ever that thick cloud..of melancholized old age..dark the remembrance of your pristine Lustre. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. Contents i. v, Our own Imaginations [are] taken for sensations and realities in sleep, and by melancholized persons when awake. |