melancholiac, a. and n.
(mɛlənˈkəʊlɪæk)
[f. melancholia + -ac, after maniac.]
a. adj. Affected with melancholia. b. n. One suffering from melancholia.
| 1863 Reade Hard Cash III. 100 In short, she gave them the impression that Alfred was a moping melancholiac. Ibid. 123 A lunatic of the unhappiest class, the melancholiac. 1897 A. R. Urquhart in Dict. Nat. Biog. LII. 320/2 Separating the insane into groups of maniacs, melancholiacs, and so on. |