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splenetic

adj
/spləˈnɛtɪk/US

Etymology

The adjective form of spleen, borrowed from Late Latin spleneticus, from Latin splen. Anger was traditionally believed to originate from the fluids of the spleen.

  1. derived from splen
  2. borrowed from spleneticus

Definitions

  1. Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.

    • A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / […] / More peevish, cross, and splenetick, / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.
    • Horace seems to have purg'd himself from those Splenetick Reflections in those Odes and Epodes, before he undertook the Noble Work of Satires; which were properly so call'd.
    • […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]

  2. Related to the spleen.

    • I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases.

  3. A person affected with spleen.

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Derived

antisplenetic, perisplenetic, splenetical, splenetically

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA