a. and sb. [f. med.L. ātrabīlāri-us (see prec.) + -AN.]

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  A.  adj. = ATRABILARIOUS; ‘replete with black choler.’ J.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 792. An Hypochondriacal or Atrabilarian Distemper.

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1732.  Arbuthnot, Rules of Diet, 298. Melancholy or atrabilarian Constitutions.

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1831.  Heidiger, Didoniad, V. 130. His pristine prompt atrabilarian Commands.

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  B.  sb. An atrabilious man, a hypochondriac.

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