melancholian
English
editNoun
editmelancholian (plural melancholians)
- (obsolete) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
- 1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects
- And hence you may observe in the Modern Stories of our Religious Melancholians, that they commonly pass out of one Passion into another without any manner of Reasoning and Discourse
- 1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects
References
edit“melancholian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.