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Definition of Splenetic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to the spleen.
Partainyms: Lien, Spleen, Spleen
Derivative terms: Lien, Spleen, Spleen
2. Adjective. Very irritable. "Witty and waspish about his colleagues"
Definition of Splenetic
1. a. Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful.
2. n. A person affected with spleen.
Definition of Splenetic
1. Adjective. bad-tempered, irritable, peevish, spiteful, habitually angry ¹
2. Adjective. (biology) relating to the spleen ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Splenetic
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Splenetic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Splenetic
Literary usage of Splenetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1906)
"(Texas or splenetic Fever.) Texas Fever In Cattle I Indicating counties from
which the disease vas reported. (Indicating counties in which the Board made ..."
2. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837)
"Here are many reports concerning the English affairs, which I am sometimes
splenetic enough to give credit to. Chamberry, Nov. 30, 1741, NS I RECEIVED this ..."
3. Select Fables: With Cuts by John Trotter Brockett (1820)
"A splenetic and a facetious man were once upon a journey: the former went slugging
on with a thousand cares and troubles in his head, exclaiming over and ..."
4. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of by John Heneage Jesse (1846)
"Her account of its origin—Her splenetic feelings towards him.—Retires to the
continent.—Her separation from her husband.—Extracts from Horace Walpole's ..."
5. Lay Sermons by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1852)
"a phrase, methinks, as ever forced a splenetic smile on the staid countenance of
meditation; and yet no fiction. For our readers have, in good truth, ..."
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