† splenatic, a. Obs.
Also 7–8 -ick; 7 spleenatick.
[ad. med.L. splēnaticus (OF. splenatique, Roum. splinatic), var. of splēnēticus splenetic a.]
1. Affected with disease of the spleen. rare—1.
| 1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts 189 The Spleene drunke in vrine, cureth the spleenatick. |
2. Seated in, arising from, the spleen.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. iii. v, Windy melancholy, which Laurentius subdivides into three parts,..Hepaticke, Splenaticke, Mesariacke. 1628 Ibid. (ed. 3) ii. v. iii. i. 371, I finde those that commend vse of apples, in Splenaticke..melancholy. |
3. Of persons: Spleenful.
| 1663 Butler Hud. i. i. 209 More peevish, cross, and spleenatick, Then Dog distract, or Monky sick. 1664 Ibid. ii. i. 237 King Pyrrhus cur'd his Splenatick And testy Courtiers with a kick. 1721 Amherst Terræ Fil. Pref. p. xxi, The splenatick man delights in satire. |
4. Caused by, due to, spleen.
| a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Warwick iii. (1662) 121 Queen Mary..understanding it a Splenatick design against Cardinal Poole. 1707 Freind Peterborow's Cond. Sp. 219 The first Line dispers'd all those splenatick Fumes. |