melancholie

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A form of melancholy — Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

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Meanings

nounmelancholie (countable and uncountable, plural melancholies)

plural melancholies

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of melancholy.

    moaping Melancholie And Moon-struck madness

    1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Cholmeleian
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APA

melancholie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/melancholie

MLA

“melancholie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/melancholie. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “melancholie,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/melancholie.

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