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Definition of Saturnine
1. Adjective. Bitter or scornful. "The face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"
2. Adjective. Showing a brooding ill humor. "A sullen crowd"
Similar to: Ill-natured
Derivative terms: Glumness, Moodiness, Moroseness, Moroseness, Sourness, Sullenness
Definition of Saturnine
1. a. Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.
Definition of Saturnine
1. Adjective. of or born under Saturn's influence ¹
2. Adjective. containing lead, or suffering from lead poisoning (saturnia) ¹
3. Adjective. cold and slow to change and reaction (refers to mood) ¹
4. Adjective. gloomy, depressed, dull ¹
5. Adjective. sardonic, bitter, disdainful ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Saturnine
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Saturnine
1.
1. Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.
2. Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper.
3.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saturnine
Literary usage of Saturnine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1884)
"... upon a profound inter-medullary neuropathy.—Bernhart, in Centralblatt fd med.
Wiss., No. 44. saturnine ENCEPHALOPATHY WITH GENERALIZED LEAD- PARALYSIS. ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"In an age of effusion to be reserved, and in days of universal professions of
sympathy to show a saturnine front, was to be an original. ..."
3. Quarterly Compendium of Medical Science by D. G. Brinton (1887)
"In ordinary gout the blood corpuscles undergo no change either in number or
quality ; in the saturnine gout there is generally ..."
4. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"Some authors, especially in France (Regis), even speak of an acute and subacute
psychosis of dementia and of saturnine pseudo-general paralysis. ..."
5. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... —A well-grown calf—An adventure in Monte Testaccio —A vision of death—A
fantastic and saturnine genius —A pitch-black place—Illuminations and fireworks— ..."
6. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... —A vision of death—A fantastic and saturnine genius —A pitch-black
place—Illuminations and fireworks— The Faun—Enjoying Rome—First ..."
7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1884)
"... upon a profound inter-medullary neuropathy.—Bernhart, in Centralblatt fd med.
Wiss., No. 44. saturnine ENCEPHALOPATHY WITH GENERALIZED LEAD- PARALYSIS. ..."
8. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"In an age of effusion to be reserved, and in days of universal professions of
sympathy to show a saturnine front, was to be an original. ..."
9. Quarterly Compendium of Medical Science by D. G. Brinton (1887)
"In ordinary gout the blood corpuscles undergo no change either in number or
quality ; in the saturnine gout there is generally ..."
10. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"Some authors, especially in France (Regis), even speak of an acute and subacute
psychosis of dementia and of saturnine pseudo-general paralysis. ..."
11. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... —A well-grown calf—An adventure in Monte Testaccio —A vision of death—A
fantastic and saturnine genius —A pitch-black place—Illuminations and fireworks— ..."
12. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... —A vision of death—A fantastic and saturnine genius —A pitch-black
place—Illuminations and fireworks— The Faun—Enjoying Rome—First ..."
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