Sekirov Dictionary

splenetic

/spləˈnɛtɪk/

adjective 2
noun 1
forms 3

adjective2

•
Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
- A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / […] / More peevish, cross, and splenetick, / Than dog distract, or monkey sick. — 1662
•
Related to the spleen.
- I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases. — 1879

noun1

(no longer used) A person affected with spleen.

forms

splenetics · more splenetic · most splenetic

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