atrabiliary
adj/ˌæt.ɹəˈbɪl.i.əɹ.i/
Etymology
From Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”) (āter (“dark, black”) + bīlis (“bile”)) + -ary.
- derived from ātra bīlis
Definitions
Of or relating to black bile.
- A Cancer again is known by its renitency of touch, if it be mild it carries a black or livid colour outwards, so made by the peccant humour or atrabiliary juice; there's no heat felt on the touch, but rather a coldness in the part; […]
Melancholic or hypochondriac
Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabilious.
- ATRABIL′IARY, ATRABIL′IOUS, a. Melancholic, or hypochondriacal; from the supposed preponderance of black bile. – atrabiliary capsules, the renal or supra-renal glands or capsules.
- But unquestionably the most atrabiliary of the men of letters whom I knew in Paris at that time was [Nicolas] Chamfort. Attacked with the disorder that produced the Jacobins, he was unable to forgive mankind for the accident of his birth.
The neighborhood
- synonymsad
- synonymlamentable
- neighboratrabiliously
- neighboratrabiliousness
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for atrabiliary. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA