splenative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin splēn (“spleen”) + -ative.
Adjective[edit]
splenative (comparative more splenative, superlative most splenative)
- (obsolete) pertaining to the spleen
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- For, though I am not splenative and rash