melancholious
English
Etymology
From Middle English malencolious, from Middle French melancolieus.
Adjective
melancholious (comparative more melancholious, superlative most melancholious)
- (obsolete) melancholy
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book:
- however flat and melancholious it [marriage] be
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for melancholious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)