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  • noun Obsolete form of melancholy.

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Examples

  • Ordered to rest, Ade eventually recovered, and acknowledged that this incident, which today we might regard as a breakdown, had developed through melancholie.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Written for his Melancholicke Friend: M, it was designed to discourse of the nature of melancholie, what causeth it, what effectes it worketh, how cured, and farther to lay open, whatsoeuer may serue for the knowledge thereof.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Written for his Melancholicke Friend: M, it was designed to discourse of the nature of melancholie, what causeth it, what effectes it worketh, how cured, and farther to lay open, whatsoeuer may serue for the knowledge thereof.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Witches, argued Scot, were not possessed by the devil at all, merely delusional, and suffered from not witchcraft but melancholie.34 The allegations against the poor old women brought before him mostly consisted of frivolous guesswork, motivated by spite.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Ordered to rest, Ade eventually recovered, and acknowledged that this incident, which today we might regard as a breakdown, had developed through melancholie.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Witches, argued Scot, were not possessed by the devil at all, merely delusional, and suffered from not witchcraft but melancholie.34 The allegations against the poor old women brought before him mostly consisted of frivolous guesswork, motivated by spite.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Witches, argued Scot, were not possessed by the devil at all, merely delusional, and suffered from not witchcraft but melancholie.34 The allegations against the poor old women brought before him mostly consisted of frivolous guesswork, motivated by spite.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Ordered to rest, Ade eventually recovered, and acknowledged that this incident, which today we might regard as a breakdown, had developed through melancholie.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Written for his Melancholicke Friend: M, it was designed to discourse of the nature of melancholie, what causeth it, what effectes it worketh, how cured, and farther to lay open, whatsoeuer may serue for the knowledge thereof.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Falret noted the strong depressive quality often occurring before, during, and after manic episodes, as well as melancholie anxieuse, “characterized by constant pacing and inner turmoil, which incapacitates these patients so they cannot concentrate, and this state sometimes ends up as manic agitation.”

    Touched with Fire Kay Redfield Jamison 1993

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