† spleˈnetical, a. and n. Obs.
[f. prec.]
A. adj.
1. = splenetic a. 1.
| 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 162/1 [A prescription] For Spleneticalle dolour. a 1639 Wotton Reliq. (1651) 488, I have received much benefit..touching my spleneticall Infirmity. 1694 Westmacott Script. Herb. 13 Wild-Ash..will yield a Liquor highly commended in Scorbutical and Splenetical Affects. 1708 Brit. Apollo No. 72. 2/1 Splenetical and Hypocondriacal Distempers. |
2. Disposed to mirth. (Cf. spleen n. 1 c.)
| a 1661 B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 185 Splenetical Democritus did make His lungs with a perpetual laughter shake. |
B. n. = splenetic n. 2.
| 1671 Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xv. 358 Spleneticals are such things as are appropriated to the Spleen, the seat of Melancholly. |