a. Obs. Also 6 spleanatiue, 7 spleen-. [ad. L. type *splēnatīvus (cf. prec.), or independently f. SPLEEN sb.]
1. Acting on the spleen.
1592. Nashe, P. Penilesse, 32 b. My two cunning Philosophers were driuen to … seeke out splenatiue simples, to purge their popular Patients of the Opinion of their old Traditions.
2. Spleenful; of a hot or hasty temper.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T., To Rdr. Into some spleanatiue vaines of wantonnesse … haue I foolishlie relapsed.
1602. Shaks., Ham., V. i. 28. Though I am not Spleenatiue, and rash, Yet haue I something in me dangerous.
1630. Davenant, Cruel Brother, II. Even so the mighty Nations of the Earth Change … Their Battailes fierce to Duells spleenatiue, Or witty quarrels of the Penne.
1660. trans. Wishart’s Hist. Warrs Scot., xii. 104. The two spleenative Armies.
