a. Obs. rare. [Cf. SPLENATIVE a., -ETIVE a.] Splenetic.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., III. xix. note. Hence Stratonicus merrily said, that in Crete dead men walked, because they were so splenitive, and pale-coloured.
1815. Monthly Mag., XXXVIII. 111. He was however too splenitive, austere, impatient,… to reach the abacus of excellence in the science of lexicography.
