melancholize

melancholize

English

Alternative forms

• melancholise

Etymology

From melancholy +‎ -ize, probably after French méancoliser.

Verb

melancholize (third-person singular simple present melancholizes, present participle melancholizing, simple past and past participle melancholized)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make melancholy.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be melancholy; to be consumed by sad thoughts.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970:

     , New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:

     Many men […] dare not come abroad all their lives after, but melancholize in corners, and keep in holes.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Barrow to this entry?)