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Atrabilious   Listen
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Atrabilious  adj.  Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. "A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race." "He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Atrabilious" Quotes from Famous Books



... Robespierre, a precise atrabilious, and arrogant man, was about to retort, when the craftier Tinville laid his hand on his arm, and, turning to the general, said, "My dear Henriot, thy dauntless republicanism, which is too ready to give offence, must learn to take a reprimand from the representative of Republican Law. Seriously, ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... caused him to lay out the dinner-table a whit less symmetrically. Still, I own, the style of his service was slightly depressing. He laid out my clean shirt of a morning as if it had been a shroud; and cleaned my boots as though for a man ON HIS LAST LEGS. The fact is, he was imaginative and atrabilious,—contemplating life through a medium of the colour ...
— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

... about the symptoms, he was told that the blood was seemingly viscous, and salt upon the tongue; the urine remarkably acrosaline; and the faeces atrabilious and foetid. When the doctor said he would engage to find the same phenomena in every healthy man of the three kingdoms, the apothecary added, that the patient was manifestly comatous, and moreover afflicted with griping pains and borborygmata. "A f—t for your borborygmata," cried the physician; ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett



Words linked to "Atrabilious" :   liverish, ill-natured, bilious, dyspeptic



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