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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Atrabilarian

Ăt/ra-bi-lā'ri-an or Ăt/ra-bi-lā'ri-oŭs, a.

adjective

a. [L. Lat. atrabilarius, Fr. atrabilaire, atrabilieux, from atrabile, Lat. atra bilis, black bile.] Affected with melancholy, which the ancients attributed to the black bile. Arbuthnot.

Ăt'ra-bi-lā'ri-an, n.

noun

n. A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. Disraeli.

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