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Melancholious
Melancholious \Mel`an*cho"li*ous\, a. [Cf. OF. melancholieux.]
Melancholy. [R.]
--Milton.
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melancholious
a. (context obsolete English) melancholy
Usage examples of "melancholious".
Waxy says she has him”—here the Rector shook his fist at the moon, with something very like an oath, and added, in a melancholious tone—“——, down in her will for fifty thousand.