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malencolie (c.1185)

malencolie (c.1185)

malancolie,  malencolye,  malincolye,  mallencollye,  melancoli,  melancolie,  melancholie,  melencolie;  melancolia  
  FEW:  melancholia 6/i,655a Gdf:  melancolie 5,221b GdfC: TL: melancolie 5,1353 DEAF:  melancolie  DMF:  mélancolie  TLF:  mélancolie  OED:  melancholy n.1  MED:  malencoli(e n.  DMLBS:  melancholia 1751c

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med.black bile, one of the four cardinal humours in the Galenic system
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  E si vienent […] icés maladies de sanc, de colere, de fleume, de melancolie  A-N Med i 202
( 1256; MS: c.1300 )  La june en augst estre deit, Ke la malancolie seit En nus de bone temperance  RAUF ANTS 1022
( 1396; MS: c.1400 )  les quatre humours, c’est a savoir colre, sang, fleume, malencolie  Man lang1 46
emotionpathol.med.sadness (induced by excess bile)
( 1323-25 )  si vous prioms qe vous ne vous voillez de tieles choses doner nulle malencolie  St Sard 119
( 1369; MS: s.xv1 )  [...] a tresgrant malencolie et disease de cuer  Lett & Pet 200.138.98
emotionpathol.med.anger, ill-temper (induced by excess bile)
( MS: s.xiv1 )  L'autre le surquert de malencolye pleine, Si doun au roi du launce  BOZ Tret Pass ii 432
( MS: s.xv1 )  lui prier d’essuager sa malincolye devers moi  SAMPS2 (A) 99v
emotionpathol.med.madness (induced by excess bile)
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  uns fous neis, escerveillez, Par sa fole melencolie Fet mut suvent chevalerie  Ipom BFR 8359
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Manie est une espece de frenesie et de forsenerie et de malancolie  A-N Med i 180

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See also:

malencolicus  malencolien  malencolier  malencolious  malencolique 
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malencolie