splenetive

Indeed, I may say of myself, as the Immortal Bard has the melancholy Dane say, that ‘though I am not splenetive and rash, yet have I something in me dangerous which let thy wisdom fear!’

Nevermore Harold Schechter 1999

Florio's translation, p. 372: -- 'As for me, I am of a strong and well compact stature, my face is not fat, but full, my complexion betweene joviall and melancholy, indifferently sanguine and hote -- (' _not splenetive and rash_ ').

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

A great grief takes possession of him when he hears of the death of Ophelia: he leaps, like Laertes, into her grave; he grapples with him; he warns him that, though 'not splenetive and rash,' he (Hamlet) yet has 'something dangerous' in him.

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

On his arrival at the Conservatoire, Cherubini, who was splenetive and rash, refused him admission without assigning any reason for his decision, but Rudolph Kreutzer took upon his shoulders the task of forming the future artist.

Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Lahee, Henry C 1899

Sir, though I am not splenetive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous.

Familiar Quotations John Bartlett 1862

"There was an ancient family in Yorkshire, and the lord of the house was of a very splenetive temper.

The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance Hall Caine 1892