melancholist
English
editEtymology
editFrom melancholy + -ist.
Noun
editmelancholist (plural melancholists)
- (obsolete or poetic) One affected with melancholy or dejection.
- 1676, Joseph Glanvill, The Usefulness of Real Philosophy to Religion:
- the Melancholist was afraid to ſit down for fear of being broken, ſuppoſing himself of Glass
References
edit- “melancholist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.