English

Alternative forms

• melancholise

Verb

melancholize ‎(third-person singular simple present melancholizes, present participle melancholizing, simple past and past participle melancholized)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make melancholy.
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be melancholy; to be consumed by sad thoughts.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.263:

     Many men […] dare not come abroad all their lives after, but melancholize in corners, and keep in holes.

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