a. and sb. Obs. [f. prec.]
A. adj. 1. = SPLENETIC a. 1.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 162/1. [A prescription] For Spleneticalle dolour.
a. 1639. Wotton, Reliq. (1651), 488. I have received much benefit … touching my spleneticall Infirmity.
1694. Westmacott, Script. Herb., 13. Wild-Ash … will yield a Liquor highly commended in Scorbutical and Splenetical Affects.
1708. Brit. Apollo, No. 72. 2/1. Splenetical and Hypocondriacal Distempers.
2. Disposed to mirth. (Cf. SPLEEN sb. 1 c.)
a. 1661. Holyday, Juvenal (1673), 185. Splenetical Democritus did make His Lungs with a perpetual Laughter shake.
B. sb. = SPLENETIC sb. 2.
1671. Salmon, Syn. Med., III. xv. 358. Spleneticals are such things as are appropriated to the Spleen, the seat of Melancholly.
