atrabiliar

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English

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Adjective

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atrabiliar (comparative more atrabiliar, superlative most atrabiliar)

  1. (obsolete) melancholy; atrabilious
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History [], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
      "Paris marching on us?" responds Mounier, with an atrabiliar accent, "Well, so much the better! We shall the sooner be a Republic."

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for atrabiliar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French atrabiliaire.

Adjective

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atrabiliar m or n (feminine singular atrabiliară, masculine plural atrabiliari, feminine and neuter plural atrabiliare)

  1. spleenful

Declension

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