Meanings
adjectiveatrabiliar (comparative more atrabiliar, superlative most atrabiliar)
comparative more atrabiliar · superlative most atrabiliar
- archaicmelancholy; atrabilious
‘Paris marching on us?’ responds Mounier, with an atrabiliar accent: ‘Well, so much the better! We shall the sooner be a Republic.’
1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter V, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 257
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