melancholian

English

Noun

melancholian (plural melancholians)

1. (obsolete) A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
   • 1697-1698, John Scott, Practical Discourses upon Several Subjects

     And hence you may observe in the Modern Stories of our Religious Melancholians, that they commonly pass out of one Passion into another without any manner of Reasoning and Discourse

References

“melancholian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.