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. Ibid. (1628), (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. Ibid. (1664), II. i. 237. King Pyrrhus cur’d his Splenatick And testy Courtiers with a kick.
1721. Amherst, Terræ Filius, Prof. 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.
