Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for MEL'AN-CHOL-IC
MEL'AN-CHOL-ICMEL'AN-CHOL-I-LY
MEL'AN-CHOL-IC, n.
- One affected with a gloomy state of mind. [Melancholian, in a like sense, is not used.] Spenser.
- A gloomy state of mind. Clarendon.
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