splenetic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
美 /spləˈnɛtɪk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person affected with spleen. archaic
形容词 adj.
  1. Bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry.
    — A sect, whose chief devotion lies / In odd perverse antipathies; / […] / More peevish, cross, and splenetick, / Than dog distract, or monkey sick.
  2. Related to the spleen.
    — I have already described the general protuberance of the abdomen among the children throughout the Messaria and the Carpas districts, all of whom are more or less affected by splenetic diseases.

词形变化

more splenetic comparative most splenetic superlative splenetick alternative,obsolete splenetics plural splenetick alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
antisplenetic perisplenetic splenetical splenetically
相关词
lienal spleenful spleeny splenic splenitive

词源

词源 1
The adjective form of spleen, borrowed from Late Latin spleneticus, from Latin splen. Anger was traditionally believed to originate from the fluids of the spleen.
词源 2
The adjective form of spleen, borrowed from Late Latin spleneticus, from Latin splen. Anger was traditionally believed to originate from the fluids of the spleen.
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