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† splenatic, a. Obs.
Also 7–8 -ick; 7 spleenatick.
[ad. med.L. splēnaticus (OF. splenatique, Roum. splinatic), var. of splēnēticus splenetic a.]
1. Affected with disease of the spleen. rare—1.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 189 The Spleene drunke in vrine, cureth the spleenatick.
2. Seated in, arising from, the spleen.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. iii. v, Windy melancholy, which Laurentius subdivides into three parts,..Hepaticke, Splenaticke, Mesariacke. 1628Ibid. (ed. 3) ii. v. iii. i. 371, I finde those that commend vse of apples, in Splenaticke..melancholy.
3. Of persons: Spleenful.
1663Butler Hud. i. i. 209 More peevish, cross, and spleenatick, Then Dog distract, or Monky sick. 1664Ibid. ii. i. 237 King Pyrrhus cur'd his Splenatick And testy Courtiers with a kick. 1721Amherst Terræ Fil. Pref. p. xxi, The splenatick man delights in satire.
4. Caused by, due to, spleen.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Warwick iii. (1662) 121 Queen Mary..understanding it a Splenatick design against Cardinal Poole. 1707Freind Peterborow's Cond. Sp. 219 The first Line dispers'd all those splenatick Fumes. |